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"George-pilled"?

UK-focused articles rebutting common arguments against a land value tax, written by an LVT advocate: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.com/p/index.html

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That's a good blog. Sadly, Mark Wadsworth (the author) appears to have died within the last year.

Edit: Link: http://www.yppuk.org/2023/03/mark-wadsworth-obituary.html

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-pilled

Good point, yes - if I'm surprised to see this turn of phrase in the NYT, and yet I implicitly assume everybody knows what it means, then maybe I shouldn't have been surprised in the first place.

Yeah definitely weird seeing racist slang from 4chan seep into mainstream journalism.

inb4 its from the Matrix; only red/blue pill is. The [term]pilled is from /pol/.

I see what you mean, but in a lot of ways many mainstream memes have had their origin on 4chan (not only pol/b btw) and memes influence speech and everything else. Would be interesting to see a detailed analysis of this IMO

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