'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says (npr.org)

Dictionary.com has selected "complicit" as its word of the year for 2017, citing the term's renewed relevance in U.S. culture and politics -- and noting that a refusal to be complicit has also been "a grounding force of 2017." From a report: The website defines "complicit" as "choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others; having complicity." Interest in the word spiked several times this year, Dictionary.com says -- most notably when Ivanka Trump said in April, "I don't know what it means to be complicit."

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Should be Demagogue

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know what it means to be complicit.

Moron Assholes in the media and the Left pretend that she didn't know what the word meant vs not knowing what actions could make one, "complicit" in the circumstances being discussed.

They knew that's what she was saying. But never missing the changing to be cunt assholes, they went with their interpretation.

Re:Should be Demagogue

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, these are the same brilliant minds that thought Slick Willie was pulling a 4-D chess move with his, "That depends on what your definition of 'is' is" crap.

Re:Should be Demagogue

[Anonymous Coward]

Ivan, you are one stupid faggot!

Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Why the fuck is this submission on the front page of Slashdot?!

This submission has nothing to do with technology, science, math, computing, science fiction, programming, or anything even remotely relevant.

This is shit-tier news that would even be considered pretty irrelevant by most mainstream sites.

Even as a purely political submission this one is total shit.

Whipslash, if you still even visit this site, can you please do something about msmash? Msmash has repeatedly put some of the most idiotic, irrelevant submissions up on the front page. Please relieve msmash of its editorial duties here.

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[sycodon]

You Click, They $$

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Collusion;

The only word the media seems to know this year.

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[bobbied]

Collusion;

The only word the media seems to know this year.

You keep using that word...

I don't think that word means what you think it means...

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[sheramil]

You Click, They $$

That's the thing. Articles like this, you don't need to click.

Anyway, I thought "egregious" was the word of the year. Seems everyone's using it as a replacement for "very".

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[cyberchondriac]

That would be gratuitous.

Re:Why the fuck is this on Slashdot's front page?!

[Anonymous Coward]

It means two or more people getting together and planning some crimes.

While not a crime, the crime discussed during the collusion is a crime.

So it's really more or less a crime thing.

And while no one is saying the name, yes, that guy and his campaign and family colluded with some Russians, among others.

It should have been dotard

[Anonymous Coward]

It should have been dotard

here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

impeachment

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

President Pence?! No thanks! Best thing to do is leave things as they are and just vote out all the incumbents from the house and as many as you can in the senate. Replace all democrats and republicans with independents. Then, if you get a good speaker, impeach both Trump AND Pence! And drag all their complicit supporters into criminal court!

And don't forget kids, with reelection rates as high as they are, the voters are complicit in everything the government does.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Good luck with that, special snowflake!

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

better than our snowflake in Chief. cries on twitter anytime someone doesn't like him..

boo hoo. fat president can't take the heat!

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

boo hoo. irrelevant internet troll can't accept the results of an election!

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

...says the idiots who spent eight years bitching about results they didn't like.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

as opposed to Cmdr. Bone Spurs and his legion of vatnik retards?

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

Of who?

Remember, an impeachment trail requires a majority vote in the house to start it but also requires 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. If you are thinking Trump will be impeached and convicted, you are as crazy as he is. Republicans understand this would be suicide, well, at least enough of them understand this that we'd never get a conviction.

Then I ask the obvious question.. If you won't succeed in getting Trump out of office, what's the point of taking this huge risk? Last time impeachment happened, it didn't go so well for the party driving the train after the conviction failed in the Senate.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Jzanu]

The long-standing character of the US is at stake, and this is more important than political bickering. As a remote observer Trump has turned the US into Russia of the 90s, and that is not a good thing! The US is the bastion of freedom, or at least it should be. You have monuments to that!

Now, bobblied, you personally may be a Russian troll brigade member or simply a useful idiot furthering their objectives without consideration of the long-term outcomes. In that case, I'm sorry, I don't care about you or what you say, and neither does anyone else now that the larger scheme has been exposed. I have known this from Germany since 2001, but English media is only exposed recently. /P

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

Oh please... Now I'm a Russian because I point out that impeaching Trump might not be a good idea? That's rich...

Could it be that because you cannot admit that your candidate lost a fair and square election to an absolute novice that you are grasping at straws? Seriously, Hillary was an awful candidate and ran a horrible campaign. This election was her's to lose, and she lost it to a candidate that had nearly a zero chance of winning.

In order to impeach trump, you guys need to take the house in 2018... I don't see that happening, but let's say it does for argument sake. In that case Impeachment of Trump may happen, but Conviction won't, there is zero chance you will get 2/3rds even if you won EVERY Senate seat in the midterms. You need to square with that reality and figure out how you are going to deal with it because the last party that impeached a sitting president and failed paid dearly for the attempt.

But... By all means, do try. It will be a bloodbath at the ballot box for your side...

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[WrongMonkey]

As a remote observer Trump has turned the US into Russia of the 90

Right. These breadlines and salary delays are getting to be a real pain.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Try the auctioning off of weapons technology, natural resources, and destruction of law. Also rampant violation of the constitutional rights of Americans, disenfranchisement, imprisonment, and torture if you donâ(TM)t mind the Soviet cross overs.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[craXORjack]

That you made this political is not surprising in the least. After all, it was clearly a political statement.

But this political statement was made by some no-name at a dictionary web site, someone who has even less authoritas to spew their political opinion than the typical musical star or television actor.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow... you're right. It turns out that there are only 8 republican senators up for re-election in 2018, so Jan 2019 impeachment conviction won't be possible. But that's actually a good thing, because it means Pence won't become president.

We'll just have to hope for the next best thing to impeachment: Blue midterm == political gridlock/stalemate until Trump's term ends.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you even read the post you are replying to? The person is clearly not from the US. They explicitly said that they are an outside observer (from Germany). In that case, who is "you guys"? How can you immediately go on a rant about "your candidate"? The OP didn't have skin in the game and was simply commenting on the fact that in the eyes of many (most?) around the world, the stature of the US has taken a big hit.

And on the "your candidate" point, seriously it's been over a year. The vast majority of people aren't thinking about Hillary, nor are they thinking about Mitt or McCain or Kerry or Gore or Dole or Perot or Dukakis. People don't care about past candidates. However, many of us do care about now and we care about the fact the world is increasingly unstable and the largest economic and military power which used to be a force for worldwide stability seems to not only be ceding that position but acting as a force for instability. But please, Americans, do continue your hyper-partisan navel gazing relitigating elections of literal yesteryears. Maybe you can spend the next four years arguing about Chinese climate change hoaxes and whether Jesus rode on dinosaurs--all the way up to the inauguration of your next TV show president.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

not unlike some Internet Research Agency lackey who bought a Slashdot account to post bullshit with

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[Tough Love]

There are only two paths for Americans: impeach Trump or accept diminished stature on the world stage, in addition to the damage he plans to perpetrate on the homeland.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

If you think this is what heâ(TM)s doing, you arenâ(TM)t paying attention. He uses the snowflake facade to cleverly pigeonhole his critics and wag the dog of the media.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

You're called a Russian troll because you repeat the Kremlin's taking points and because you're a Russian troll.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[sound vision]

"you guys", "your side", etc etc...

Notice who is the one that needs to get all defensive when "their man" is threatened. The person you are replying to didn't even mention Hillary, and there is nothing in the post to suggest that he voted for or otherwise supported her. Not that it would make a damn bit of difference to his actual argument. You see, some people just like to be partisan cheerleaders, hoping that the star quarterback for Their Team steals the show. And some people actually devote deep, independent, often painful thought to what our government should be doing to effectively run the nation. Guess which end of the spectrum you fall on.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

There's a third choice: form a comedy act.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[sound vision]

I'm starting to see a common thread of fearmongering about Pence becoming president, and it's really starting to look like an idea that's being ah... Artificially disseminated. Nobody wants to see Pence as president, and the calculation is that we have now become so weary to Trumpism that we will just accept it as the new normal. Painting Trump as the devil we know and Pence as the devil we don't.

Well, we know both of them. We know how specially and uniquely rotten Trump is, and we know how averagely, status-quo rotten Pence is. In the choice of the lesser of two evils, it's clear who is the lesser and more easily contained. And it's clear that action must be taken. Do not become complacent. Do not accept the death of our nation and all its values. Do not give up on impeachment.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not give up on impeachment.

Put more simply, Pence is a cookie cutout of a standard fairly stock republican politician. Sure he has no surplus of ethics and he will back whatever Trump does, more or less, but I don't think he would actually do what Trump does. I wouldn't expect much of Pence, but if he at least cuts back on the blatant propaganda and the attempts to destroy the fourth estate he would be better than Donald. Bonus points, if after Trump is in jail he finally admits that he believes in what the intelligence agencies tell him, at least when they all tell him the same thing.

I think the main reason Trump may be supporting Moore is he needs an almost certain no vote to convict and remove him in the Senate and he is perfectly okay with getting that no vote from a child molester.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[fafalone]

Yup, don't impeach Trump, Party before Country right? At least a few Republicans seem to be reconsidering this, meanwhile Trump and the rest of the psycho part of the party are doubling down by backing Roy Moore no matter how many teenagers* he molested/dated.

But the best defense against a Trump impeachment has got to be the prospects of a President Pence. He's got all the same awful positions as Trump, but is competent enough that they'll actually get their agenda through instead of spending all their time infighting. There's gotta be at least some on the left that realize this. So ultimately I do have to agree with your point.

* - His conduct ranged from inappropriate to illegal and abhorrent, but teenagers aren't children and it's not pedophilia. Saying he's a child molester or pedophile is yet another example of how to alienate people through hyperbole, a lesson the left refuses to learn, and now it might just result in enough support to get this awful man into congress.

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[fafalone]

Trump is worse but he's far less competent. And his awfulness leads to lots of infighting and paralysis in the GOP. Put Pence in, and the GOP will get a lot more policies passed that screw the country (the part that's not rich at least). That's going to kill the nation a lot faster. I'm not willing to trade looking better for being worse.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

In case you haven't noticed.. Roy Moore was cut adrift by the RNC and has been cut loose by nearly everyone in the republican party, nobody is with him now. How's that square with how you represent this issue? Also, One simply cannot deny that this issue with Moore and teenage girls is conveniently timed for his political opponent. Even if Moore did all this, the release was timed for political reasons and that should raise suspicions by all. But we really have no proof of any of these stories either way, and at this point, 37 years later, there will be no proof for any of this, either way. My guess is that Moore will win, unless some idiot tries to mount a write in campaign in the next 12 days or so, which seems unlikely.

About the impeachment idea.. By all means, try. PLEASE try. Sans any real crime and serious by Trump himself being uncovered, The effort WILL fail and will accrue to the detriment of those who push it. Oh? You think Trump DID commit a crime then? What crime, exactly?

Re: here's hoping next year's word is..

[Anonymous Coward]

That would be a good band name, Cmdr. Bone Spurs and the vatnik retards.

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[fafalone]

Trump is with him. So are a few Senators. That most aren't fits with my point, that many Republicans are reconsidering the whole party before country thing that underlies their support for Trump. You're being a bit disingenuous with the comment on timing; it's not that people suddenly came forward on their own, he was for the first time subjected to high scrutiny from national news outlets and the initial complaints were discovered only by reporters going to ask about his history. Local news for state elections just isn't looking that hard.
As for what crimes Trump committed, we can start with treason and obstruction of justice and go from there. He fired the director of the FBI for looking into whether he directly colluded with a hostile foreign government to effect the election, and admitted as much on national television*. So both those charges are clear even if there actually was no collusion with Trump himself, though believing that when there clearly was with his son and a bunch of high level campaign staff is just not realistic. (And for what it's worth, I think Clinton committed a crime too and they should be sharing the same cell, I have no love for her either, people seem to forget that some of us are principled enough to call out wrongs on their own side).

* -

"But regardless of [the] recommendation, I was going to fire Comey. Knowing there was no good time to do it!
And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won."

Re:here's hoping next year's word is..

[bobbied]

Oh? Trump is "with him"? Not really. Trump won't be in Alabama campaigning for Moore or sending him money..

What Trump is saying is exactly what I'm saying. Moore is a better choice than the democrat. Obviously Moore isn't currently engaged in molesting children now, nor has he been accused of this in the last 37 years. I don't know if he did it or not but he's not doing this now and there ARE valid doubts that the stories being told are the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Given the obvious political motives behind these stories and the timing of their release there ARE doubts here.

I would strongly suggest you be careful here. Roy Moore's troubles are the kind that often backfire on the left. We've had decades of popular democrats which engaged in well documented and known egregious behavior of this sort and we've all looked the other way. Roy Moore's behavior 37 years ago, even if true, was pretty tame compared to some of the things we CAN prove happened on the left. Tread lightly sir.

Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on board

[Anonymous Coward]

Dictionary.com is owned by IAC, where Chelsea Clinton sits on the board of directors.

Google News pix of Ivanka Trump with this article

[Anonymous Coward]

So of course it's to be taken seriously.

Is there a picture?

[Anonymous Coward]

HRC seems to fit.

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Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[cyberchondriac]

I've noticed they've been hinting at political jabs all year long, and it's been really annoying. Time to unsubscribe from their word of the day I guess. There are alternatives.

Stuff that matters

[Anonymous Coward]

nuf said

John McCain, in the Rose Garden, with a 45

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope his head pops off when the Marines hang his ass.

Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[Anonymous Coward]

Word of 2018: "conspiracy"

Yes it is & example (of non-compliance)

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[Anonymous Coward]

The knee-jerk reaction against "conspiracies" is interesting. Conspiracies happen every day. Your co-workers, your family, your friends, are all constantly engaged in various forms of subterfuge against one another over things like promotions, inheritances, etc. Yet somehow, when you extrapolate from this position and apply these same behaviors to people in power, people act like you're a lunatic.

Re:Google News pix of Ivanka Trump with this artic

[Anonymous Coward]

Google News pix of Ivanka Trump with this article (Score:0)

So of course it's to be taken seriously.

Why? Does she wear a T-shirt saying "I'm with stupid"?

Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[Anonymous Coward]

Cry me a river, covfefe!

Just one question

[Locke2005]

Do they have a picture of Ivanka Trump to illustrate the dictionary definition of "complicit"?

Re:Went and found my login for this.

[Anonymous Coward]

Or you could, you know, grow the fuck up and read the damn article before criticizing based on an assumption. Look at the end part where they show the frequency of the word in their own wide publication has increased year over year, and before that where it talks about all the ways it has been used more this year.

Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is it SO EASY to find a Clinton or an extremely on the board of the directors of almost any media project or their controlling interest? Deride it as a "conspiracy" all you like, if every media company had a Trump somewhere up the wire you'd think it was highly suspicious- and there's a lot more Trumps than Clintons.

Linguistics is Geeky

[Jzanu]

Linguistics is very geeky, and fascinating for its relationships to everything from statistics to communications which is what justifies IT itself. Get your head out of your ass!

Re:Linguistics is Geeky

[Anonymous Coward]

This submission has about as much to do with "linguistics" as creating a grocery shopping list has to do with programming. That's to say, pretty much nothing at all.

Yes, linguistics would be an interesting topic to discuss here. But this submission sure as fuck isn't about linguistics, and only a fucking idiot would think that it is.

Re: Linguistics is Geeky

[Anonymous Coward]

Only a fucking idiot thinks it isnâ(TM)t.

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Fail

[Anonymous Coward]

nuff said.

odd thought it would have been

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump traitor.

Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[ruddk]

It would be nice to find a refuge from politics somewhere, but it is damn near impossible.

Not going to happen, but fraud

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah impeachment requires Republicans get a backbone, remember the sanctions against Russia? The deadline to implement them was October 1st..... do you see Paul Ryan demanding Trump implement the sanctions? Do you see Hannity or Fox demand Trump implement the sanctions against a country that cyber attacked the elections? Nah, Fox news should use the Hammer and Sickle not the Stars and Stripes.

On the other hand if you look at Trump's empire, it's fraud. It's Trump lying about asset values, borrowing against those fake numbers, then skimming off some of that borrowing as fees to other Trump companies. There's a lot of dodgy Russian businessmen help with the fake valuation too, buying up condos at way over the market rate, which is why Mueller will look at those accounts.

Take a look at the election disclosures Trump made. The first one, the numbers did not match reality, e.g. he declared millions in profit >$5 million on his declaration for the Scottish golf course, when the UK publishes company accounts and we can see it actually made a massive loss. He then made another disclosure a year later, this time the disclosure covers *5* quarters, to stop it being compared against the few published *4* quarter accounts we know about. So many games to hide the accounts from scruitiny and yet Mueller can subpoena the accounts for most of Trump's 200+ shell companies, excluding the ones in Panama/Cyprus/Caymen islands, but even then he can obtain a lot of the details where those shell companies touch the US assets.

A fraud prosecution is a more likely outcome for Trump.

Re:Dictionary.com owner IAC, Chelsea Clinton on bo

[cyberchondriac]

Nothing better to do?