lynched
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of lynch.
lynch
/lĭnch/
transitive verb
To punish (a person) without legal process or authority, especially by hanging, for a perceived offense or as an act of bigotry.
To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See lynch law.
verb
To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.
Sure… If you absolutely stretch the word to its barest of meanings, he received punishment without law. But he wasn’t lynched by any sane person’s understanding of the word. What an attention seeking little cry baby.
“Literally lynched”
Sure… If you absolutely stretch the word to its barest of meanings, he received punishment without law. But he wasn’t lynched by any sane person’s understanding of the word. What an attention seeking little cry baby.
That is how they are currently abusing language that is usually used to protect marginalized people.
My personal favorite is how providing basic sex education is “sexualizing children”. Fuck these dishonest cowardly pieces of shit.
“I was just lynched” Is an inherently funny sentence to anyone with a laymen’s understanding of the word.
“Literally lynched.“
“I’m calling for a bunch of peoples lives to be destroyed and I’m the victim because people accosted and threw shit at me”
Yeah this guy can go fuck himself. This is how the fascists should have been treated from the get go, maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation then.
All nazis just want to cry for attention on twitter
That’s why it’s ok to give them a real reason
“literally” has been used as an intensifier to mean figuratively for as long as its literal meaning.
He wasn’t figuratively lynched either lmao.