Can somebody explain “own”? Makes no sense. I don’t want to own any liberals.
Well, maybe I do. Holding them in chattel slavery or indentured servitude could be cool. Think of all the long-delayed Honey-Do chores I could get dome. I could even clear the backlog. Or maybe not since most liberals don’t know which end of the hammer or shovel to pick up. Can they be trained?
Own = Put in proper place... Humiliate.
And example is something I was able to do on Facebook (yeah, I do that)during the “take down Lee etc monuments” debate; I suggested that honorable enemies (example, Rommel) should be honored even if literally Nazi). Dude got all huffy and righteous. I closed with pics of the Rommel memorial in Germany. Total pwnage (ask a gamer). One of these days I’ll transcribe the exchange.
In the interest of getting more info and in hopes of either being confirmed or corrected, I offer my explanation of this usage of the word “owned”.
From video game parlance, to “own” someone was to thoroughly beat them in the game. Then one day a Warcraft player describing a particularly spectacular victory, hit the “p” instead of the “o” and created the word “pwned” which is in process of entering the vernacular as its predecessor “owned” has already done. I hope that “owned” will continue as the normal characterization and that “pwned” pronounced “poned” will be reserved for special extraordinary victory.
It is interesting that you asked about the word as I noticed that he used it without any explanation. One poster on the thread playing with the original definition of the word, says he would not own one without lobotomizing him first.