How to increase the violence in your language

The world is terrible and no one should ever be allowed to forget that. Our lives as citizens of the United States are enabled by a vast system of violence and oppression that touches every part of the planet. However, many Americans are ignorant, docile sheep who refuse to acknowledge this. If they had their way, they would never hear about how everything they love is actually evil and how by participating in regular life as an American they enable exploitation and warfare. To help break these willfully ignorant rubes out of their apolitical stupor you must turn yourself into an advertisement, a wellspring of depressing information that worms its way into every conversation you have. Happiness in American society is complicity with imperialism.

Realistically if you made it this far into the article, you do that anyway without anyone prompting you. With that in mind, here are some helpful tips and tricks to make yourself an invaluable vessel for the revolution and its ideas. Some people might find you insufferable, but if they think being real about the state of the world is "inappropriate" in any situation, that means they are at minimum willing tools of the international system. In all likelihood they are counterrevolutionary class traitors anyway, so discard their opinions.

In ascending order of complexity and severity, my tips are:

1. Change common idioms to more violent alternatives 

2. Develop a repertoire of examples of brutality under the modern system to use as examples applicable to any discussion

3. Segue any conversion into one about the injustice and violence of the global system

The first one is fairly straightforward. Take a common idiom or turn of phrase, and then 

replace the nouns. As long as you preserve the structure and rhyme scheme people will know what you are trying to say. For example, instead of saying “kill two birds with one stone” say “kill two brides with one drone.” The feel of the thing is preserved, and the underlying meaning remains the same. Another good example is saying “I don’t have a jet in this dogfight” not “I don’t have a dog in this fight.” Adapting idioms people use every day is an easy way to increase the casual violence in your language while not changing the overall subject of the conversation.

The second one requires a bit of doing. Use real life examples of horrible imperialist violence as metaphors in whatever discussion you are having. This can be fairly abstract; metaphors are often only relevant in a very specific context, so as long as the general shape of the idea is preserved you should be fine. For example, whenever there is an underlying cause behind a more prominent one, you can use the example of the CIA backing general Augusto Pinochet’s brutal coup against democratically elected Socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. The reason all my clothes are moldy is because my dryer doesn’t work, but like the CIA was responsible for overthrowing Allende, the real issue is that I never empty my lint trap. Something like that works, you continue on the same topic but you add in a long digression about imperialist violence to make sure people never forget that everything is terrible and the modern capitalist world is fundamentally evil.

The third one is the most severe but also rhetorically the simplest. Redirect every topic towards global violence. Take any opportunity, any minor change in topic that seems vaguely similar to a global conflict and hijack the conversation to go there anyway. Oh you wanted to talk about sports? Well instead we are going to talk about how baseball was closely associated with the US military and their brutal occupations of countries like South Korea, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Sports are merely bread and circuses by the aristocrats to keep the poor from revolting anyway. You want to talk about a new superhero movie? Oh you know, they are all military propaganda paid for directly by the pentagon who get to review their scripts and everything. If you try hard enough, any and every topic can be about violence. 

With these methods held firmly in mind, you can inject discussions of the violence the United States has wrought all across the world into any and every conversation you have. People might be annoyed by this, but that is only because they are cowards who are unwilling to face their own complicity in the modern world’s evils. You must become a vector for information to educate your fellow proletariat on the cruel reality of the world, and you must do this by making sure they know how awful everything is whether they want to or not. Every conversation is about violence if you are passionate enough.