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  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Thoughts and prayers. It's the pure egoism of religious apathy. Moral posturing for demons.

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  • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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    "authoritarianism"

    There's nothing that's not political so I'm going whole hog into it

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    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
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      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.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    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.

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  • Owl [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The customer is always right.

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  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    "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.

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      • ElmLion [any]
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        2 years ago

        I'd argue you're better off just saying you're not interested. Pulling fatalism is just silly.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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

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  • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    "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

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Also don't look at the cliffs over there where all the shipwrecks of smaller boats are

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Yes, the only form of social organization compatible with human nature didn't emerge until something like 500 years ago.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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    "I'm socially liberal, fiscally conservative"

    wait shit that's political, let me try again in a minute

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        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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          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.

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            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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              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.

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                • Mardoniush [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  I'm still holding the line at cd-keys and printed manual copy protection codes, like the Deserter in Disco Elysium.

                • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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                  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.

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            • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              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.

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            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              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.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      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"

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    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?

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      • yune [comrade/them, any]
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        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.

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