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# GLOSSARY
* Alien: The word alien carries a negative connotation of strangeness. It should not be used to describe unauthorized immigrants.
* Antigayist: Someone who oppresses or supports oppression of homosexuals.
* Antimuslimist: Someone who oppresses or supports oppression of Muslims. Antimuslimists are almost always racists.
* Antisocial media: Online platforms that invade users' privacy for money. Antisocial media promotes human conflict, phone addiction, depression, anxiety, poor social skills, constantly comparing oneself to others, and the illusion of real human connection.
* Antitransgenderist: Someone who oppresses or supports oppression of transgender people.
* Child: Someone twelve years of age or less. Calling adolescents and teenagers children is condescending.
* Digital tulips: Cryptocurrency. A reference to tulip mania of the Dutch Golden Age.
* The disease-spreading party: The Republican party. Republicans blocked federal funding for Covid vaccines and treatment while buying stocks to profit from the deaths.
* Disloyalty program: A rewards-based marketing strategy which offers discounts to consumers who forfeit their privacy.
* The exploitation economy: The gig economy.
* Global heating: Climate change.
* Hypocrite: Someone with blatant disregard for the alignment of their words and actions. Not someone who imperfectly adheres to their own principles.
* Inappropriate: A weasel word used to criticize something when there's no valid criticism.
* The injustice system: A vengeful legal system which uses the incoherent concept of free will to justify keeping people in cruel and inhumane conditions.
* The lesser of two evils party: The Democratic party. Corporate democrats suck, but at least they're not Republicans.
* Pass (away): A euphemism for avoiding the reality of death.
* Planet-roaster: An entity that advocates policies which worsen global heating.
* Police officer: A respectable, hardworking person who doesn't act like a thug.
* Techno-ponzi: Cryptocurrency.
* Thug: A badge-and-gun-wielding predator who attacks nonviolent protesters, jails peaceful drug users, harasses the poor, and lies in court to defend other thugs.
* The wannabe dictator: Donald Trump.
* Worth: Reject the idea that a person's worth is measured by their financial assets.