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I just remembered one more, and it may count as a hot take for some that like using it themselves, but "it's almost as if..." prefixes to sentences are really fucking grating and reek of the same passive-aggressive condescension that the other mentioned Redditisms do.
I'm with you on this one. It's intended as a sort of, "we all know this but don't say it," or similar, but always just comes off as condescending to me. Maybe because it's so often applied to statements that are in fact known and acknowledged.
"Unpopular opinon"
I just remembered another because of your post: "Let's face it/let's be honest" used as magic words to transmute opinion into ironclad objective fact.
I think there's some value in an "I'll be honest," as a signal that one is being forthright despite a potential cost, with a corresponding appeal to the listener to hear the speaker out. But yeah, when it's an appeal to an imagined silent majority that shit is often not very good.
This is Twitterbrain I think and drives me up the wall too, you're not alone