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?

  • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
    42·
    7 months ago

    “Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass” --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
      41·
      7 months ago

      “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

      “Despite the best that has been done by everyone […] the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage,”