Here’s an example from me

If you want to de-normalize a nation’s state/government, call them

spoiler

a regime

Other examples include: hospital --> loony bin

Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize dysphemism are insults?

    • GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

      Someone can just see a theoretical event happening like that and just write and TITLE the news as:

      Man leads a pro-democracy movement against corrupt one-party-rule and its institutions…

      That being said, scapegoating an outgroup is indeed a demagoguery…

      Do you take me for bad-faith arguer?

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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        8 months ago

        No, I just think we’re having difficulty understanding each other. Or rather, I know I’m not understanding you and thus can’t tell whether you’re understanding me.