The difference is between viewing exploded as simply something going wrong and viewing it as an indication of general failure. A starship prototype exploding i

The difference is between viewing exploded as simply something going wrong and viewing it as an indication of general failure. A starship prototype exploding in a flight right now is completely different from a Falcon 9 exploding in a flight. With the former it's almost desirable by making points of improvement obvious, with the latter it's a potential capacity crisis for the US launch industry. Yet that's not really how most journalists will report it, and also isn't how most people who don't actively keep up with developments will interpret it. Also, as you say, retarded replaced imbecile, and since then retarded has also been replaced, same will happen with RUD. Not really a big deal since they'll just change their language usage too.