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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're right. In my home country of Canuckistan, every headline must mention someone "slamming" someone else. I believe that term to be linguistic appropiation, however, because the textbook definiton of "slamming", when I was a fresh budding leaf, meant, "to fuck, hardddddd"