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Also the profession from the comic is a ‘lamplighter’, not ‘gaslighter’.
Nah it’s not. You think that, but you’re wrong actually. Don’t bother checking, it’ll just make you feel even stupider.
Well the lamps were already lit, so they’re just two guys setting things on fire. We have a name for that now.
We have a name for that now.
DOGE?
Gaslighting used to be a more colorful, sinister description of the act of manipulation. To be gaslit involved careful reorganization or reassessment of events, often traumatic. Now it’s a synonym for lying. Reminds me of tumblr diminishing “trigger warnings”
Gaslighting used to be a more colorful, sinister description of the act of manipulation.
I still maintain that this is the only correct use of the term.
