Begging writers to stop saying “crackdown”
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Yep lets crackdown on its use
aug 24, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
it’s what happened (and continues to happen!) with “lockdown” re: covid
aug 24, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
these same writers refuse to describe tariffs as taxes. My hope isn't high
aug 24, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a military invasion. Period.
aug 24, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
You might enjoy Orwell’s book Politics and the English Language (if you haven’t read it). He absolutely hated the use of common words and phrases like that.
aug 24, 2025, 7:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Must be a holdover from the Marion Barry days
aug 24, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I know, crackup is much better.
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
You need to crackdown on them and make them stop! 😇
aug 24, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s such a mean-nothing word.
aug 24, 2025, 6:26 pm • 24 1 • view
i prefer 'clampdown' where its applicable www.you-tube.com/watch?v=_lt4...
aug 24, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Precisely! Crackdown on what?! Going about our daily lives!
aug 24, 2025, 6:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I don’t know…”Donald Trump Jr. Puts the Crackdown For Five Minutes to Answer Some Questions” seems like a fair usage.
aug 24, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Authoritarian takeover is the proper term.
aug 24, 2025, 6:30 pm • 3 0 • view
I just muted references to "Idiocracy."
aug 24, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
They need to call it the invasion that it is.
aug 24, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
when it is actually a crack up
aug 24, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Breakup?
aug 24, 2025, 7:12 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as they characterize it properly — as a”crackdown” on political dissent — I’m okay with it.
aug 24, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, but the Worst Word if the Year is "upended." Just stop with that one too. It's a country, not a chessboard.
aug 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 5 0 • view
Haha. My other contender is “Covid laid bare”.
aug 24, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh yeah.
aug 25, 2025, 1:54 am • 1 0 • view
Strongly support your proposed crackdown on the use of this term.
aug 24, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Saw that, too, in Wapo headline, I believe. 🤬🤯 The word implies crackdown ON something... "something" that needs fixing. Using the word legitimizes the behavior. Trump is invading these cities to assert and establish dominance. Completely illegitimate.
aug 24, 2025, 6:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Fuck it's killing me to watch everybody changing their language to normalize this
aug 24, 2025, 6:30 pm • 18 0 • view