If you just keep hitting “random definitions” you get such an insane spread of internet and non-internet culture. I didn’t realise UD was almost 20 years old.

One definition will be some scene kid trying to be random xD in 2007, another will be a weird sex act invented by someone trying to be funny in 2010.

There’s references to extremely online shit, extremely niche subculture shit, or just general things you’d hear in the wider discourse. There’s A LOT of people putting up extremely specific things about a person they’re into or the place they live as if they’re common parlance but they are clearly used exclusively by that one person.

I had no idea urban dictionary captured such a large time range and such a wide cross section of society. Truly fascinating. Although it is definitely mostly 12 year olds trying to be funny - but it’s interesting to compare 12 year old’s sense of humour over the last few decades I guess.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Marxism

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=DrCruel

    A pyramid scheme masquerading as a quasi-sociopolitical economic theory, first developed from the various writings of Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, and later embellished upon by intellectual luminaries such as Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Che Guevara. Often Marxists will attempt to misrepresent their system of ideas as something "progressive"; in truth the system in practice most resembles a form of secular feudalism.

    Marxist societies, being in essence kleptocratic in form, invariably fail once the economy of the nation so ruled has been bled white. Thereafter such a failed nation is said by Marxists to have been instead an example of some form of proto-fascism; terms such as "Proletarian Bonapartism", "state capitalism", and other such equivalent nonsense. The equivalent is for Nazis to claim that a true fascist state has never existed, that detractors ought to read Mein Kampf to get the true story of what Nazism is truly about, etc (see David Irving).

    A common misconception Marxists like to spread is that their system of economic and social management is codified in texts by Marx/Engels, such as Das Kapital. If one takes the time to read such texts, it becomes readily clear that not only are they woefully out of date (referring to issues that were important in the 19th century), but that for the most part the analyses the theory is based on is mostly utter nonsense (see "labour theory of value"). In actual practice both the analyses and theoretical applications of Marxism are meant for people at the bottom of the pyramid scheme to absorb; those at the top use the theory to justify mass thievery, mass murder and class genocide.

    Marxism as a theory is a precursor to fascism and, later, Nazism. The key difference between these two systems is that early Marxists believed people should be robbed, enslaved and murdered based on their class and/or vocational identity; Nazism believes people should be robbed, enslaved and murdered based on their racial or ethnic identity. Otherwise there is virtually no difference, either in structural form or function. Russian Bolshevism, Chinese Maoism and German Nazism are all forms of secular feudalism. All have their roots in Marxism, and all are most properly classified as movements of the Left.

    I want to milk this hog's brain of all its juice. It's nothing but juice.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      It took several seconds before I found this person using slurs. They also have a definition of McDonald's as a triumph of capitalism. All of this was written in like 2005 too, I sometimes forget that hogs haven't changed at all.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        So much juice that I want to duct tape them to a bird feeder and supply hummingbirds with all the nectar they could eat.