“Let people enjoy things”
Fuck you, let me enjoy shitting on liberals
:geordi-no: To each their own
:geordi-yes: To each according to their needs
Thoughts and prayers. It's the pure egoism of religious apathy. Moral posturing for demons.
"authoritarianism"
There's nothing that's not political so I'm going whole hog into it
This was gonna be my suggestion too, it's one of the most thought-terminating words of the last few years. Whatever definition it once had has now been entirely boiled down to "When a foreign government does something that is against Western interests". You could be the most tyrannical regime in existence, you could bolt cameras and trackers onto every person, you could enforce arbitrary clothing standards, you could limit the mobility of every person in the country to be a tiny area for maximum control, but you would still not once be called authoritarian so long as western capitalists had unfettered access to your economy.
Tha Ultimate Liberal Racist, Hannah Arendt, and her consequences
Not so much a slogan, but the labeling of anything that might improve people's lives as extremism, and calling for being reasonable, and sensible when what they're really calling for is the suffering of poor people.
I can't explain it well but hopefully, you know what I mean
Another one that bothers me is "You just have to look after yourself." and "You can't think about all the worlds problems or you'll go crazy" and other slogans made to shut you up and discourage direct action.
I just tell them there is no position more extreme than continuing down the current path
"It is what it is."
Want to get out of a conversation, especially a conversation that might lead to you having to do something? Drop a fatalism-bomb and walk away.
ngl I use this all the time. Just don't have the energy for some convos
I'd argue you're better off just saying you're not interested. Pulling fatalism is just silly.
Sometimes people want you to say something but also they don't want you to say something of substance and this one is Old Reliable
"help you help yourself" usually used to justify not helping in anyway at all
"no such thing as a free lunch" twisting the conservation of energy into justifying selfishness
"a rising tide raises all boats" yet some boats always seem to get raised more than others :curious-marx:
"man up" and it's many variants
Also don't look at the cliffs over there where all the shipwrecks of smaller boats are
Clean Coal and the idea that the climate naturally changes over time, as if that absolves humans of responsibility. People die naturally all the time, says the serial killer.
Yeah, the phrase "human nature" has done a lot of damage in general.
Yes, the only form of social organization compatible with human nature didn't emerge until something like 500 years ago.
This comment took me out of it, whenever I read the word 'boys' I just go
"I'm socially liberal, fiscally conservative"
wait shit that's political, let me try again in a minute
"You need two wings to fly an airplane" :matt-jokerfied: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
The bus only works if all the wheels are going the same way :galaxy-brain:
I'd say it's the summarization of the societal devastation it wrought in it's journey to pathfinding/wrecking the way for today's consumerist media landscape.
Then again we could throw marvel in place of the show and say that's a more accurate description. But shoulders of giants and all that.
ah but that's basically "shitty politics: The TV show", and an easy win for the "name some form of media that's caused a devastating impact to society" game lmao
honestly if you really try to keep the answer apolitical (lol) it actually becomes very hard to think of something.
I'm also gonna throw "Microtransactions" into the ring as something that's caused significant societal damage.
I'm still holding the line at cd-keys and printed manual copy protection codes, like the Deserter in Disco Elysium.
Also "makes fun of everything" means that Mormons get made fun of for being silly and goofy and having dumb lore(Also goes for how they mock Scientology), while trans people get made fun of through
CW: Describing transphobic south park shit
Comparing them to surgically trying to be black, or a dolphin. Or the whole separate episode from that shit where trans women are mocked as literal macho men trying to brutalise cis women.
The fact that South Park unironically peddles Eric Cartman as the good guy, multiple times.
Eric Cartman has become a role model for multiple generations of men, under the idea that evil is good and good is evil.
I'll give south park this: when they aren't trying to push an opinion trey and Matt can be really fucking funny. They're at their best when they're just being silly. Fun Times With Weapons and the Guinea Pigs 2 parter as well as Casa Bonita are some of the funniest things I've seen even still. They have shitty political views or when they aren't bad views they're presented really bad but when they try to be dumb as hell or kinda reach into how shitty 4th graders are an play with that it can hit really well.
I used to date someone with a cousin that unironically described himself like that.
I got super pissed at him one night cause he kept insisting that "even nazis deserve free speech"
bootstraps cliche is class warfare and americans don't think that's politics so :shrug-outta-hecks:
any invocation of human nature if we're going even more detached. our existence is antithetical to natural selection. we are freaks of nature. even if there was a 'human nature', who the fuck are you to arbitrate it?
I believe she means that with technology, cooperation, and progress, we as a species have not really been getting "weeded out" like natural selection involves. Basically anyone can live long enough to reproduce, and things that would be debilitating for an animal in the wild dont really exist for humans to the same degree. We can augment ourselves with prosthetics, medication, etc, to prolong our lives and functioning. Animals can't really do that. There's no point to saying something is human nature because we have essentially "outgrown" our natural selves, if that makes sense. Maybe I'm talking out my ass though idk im a dumbass with too much time to think about stuff like this.
I just remembered one: Simp
Remember no one can be nice to feeeemales ever or you're a simp
