A while ago in Taiwan politics, an elected official made headlines by filing criminal defamation lawsuits against 107 internet trolls and smear-campaign accounts.

As everyone knows, publicly insulting others with vulgar language is illegal both in the physical world and on the internet.

In reality, every swear word has its malice artificially assigned by human convention.

Therefore, as long as you coin a brand-new pronoun or obscure phrase yourself—choosing characters that are completely neutral, possessing zero identifiable real-world derogatory meaning.

Yet deep down inside your heart, you define that invented word as the darkest, most vile, malicious, filthy, and indescribably abominable curse in cosmic history since the Big Bang.

By doing this, you can vent without risking a lawsuit, while the other party is left feeling profoundly unsettled and baffled because they have no idea what it means.

Isn’t this the ultimate, invincible psychological victory?

Hello there, 㯻竃.

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