• dellish@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    “Liquidated with bullets”?

    Do they mean sprayed with? Is this an AI fuck up or just an expression I’ve never heard?

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        18 hours ago

        It’s a pretty popular page. Think they run the one on bsky too.

        I get the impression they aren’t native English speakers though.

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        19 hours ago

        Huh, it was a euphemism for so long its actually part of the definition now.

        I’m fairly sure it comes from basically financial liquidation / liquid assets.

        In the latter stages of a bankruptcy, you often sell off a bunch of assets to get as much liquid cash as possible to pay out as much as you can.

        So, if you torture that meaning a bit… you liquidate a person who hasn’t paid their debts to the mob or w/e, as a way of permanently settling their accounts.

        This guy is arguably stretching the definition / euphemism a bit further… but hey, maybe if that dealership’s financials actually can’t handle that level of property damage, they may actually go bankrupt and financially liquidate.