Flashpoint terms became prolific during the pandemic and the 2020 protests. The tags tended to identify their users as clickbait addicts. Quite honestly, these primitive phrases took credence away from the viewpoints they usually accompanied, especially when they were laced with hostility, as they so often were. Using those words often indicated someone settled for easy access verbiage taken from social media threads, rather than a legit news source, suckered into lazy hyperbole once they adopted the slags that sounded so jazzy in the HuffPo comments sections.
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