“R U TRIGGERED” and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.

I still see vestiges of “le epic bacon” out there but it’s mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to “trigger the vegans.” Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.

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      I’m not religious either and :reddit-logo: New Atheists weren’t just insufferable but a lot of them found religion over time, either through techbro culty grifts, :up-yours-woke-moralists: grifters guiding them into “cultural Christianity,” or sometimes full blown “TradCaths” that want to LARP Warhammer 40k. :scared-fash: