My practical answer would be, of course, right wing shit, period. It wouldn’t stop them but might slow their spread.
My fun/funny/unserious answer would be commission an algorithm to monitor Reddit so I don’t have to that keeps track of exceedingly popular passive-aggressive and smug ways to start and end sentences and takes the top percentiles of them and makes them the shockers of the week. It would make Lemmyverse liberals a lot less redundant as a side effect, too.
“Umm, I’m sorry, honestly, but let’s be honest here. It’s almost as if…”
“Wow, vitriol much?”
‘whataboutism’
whataboutism
Amber
Amber.
I would just shock people when they’re lying online. That’s it.
They can do it to people in person, but no more sock puppets or disingenuous BS on the internet. No more people taking credit or talking about their cousin who for real died from a mote of fentanyl dust.
“As a (insert appropriated LGBTQIA+/black/leftist-as-they-come identity here), the problem is other (LGBTQIA+/black/leftists)…”
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of debate bros suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
As an ND can I petition to extend this policy IRL too because I’m tired of literally every social interaction being confusing and exhausting
It would be so much better. The social games aren’t even fun.
Now I have to be honest to my boss? I will be fired instantly.
Your boss has to be honest with everyone now and will likely be torn to pieces by an angry mob before the week is out
Rural Amerikkkans telling me how much they need their car
Shock them until they agitate and organize into a mass transit movement!
Hook their genitals up to a 25kV catenary
In America they have no trains, so the people must organize their bodies into the shape of a train and pretend to magnetically levitate to their destination
“You don’t agree with the US foreign policy, you must be a bot”
”Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
The stupidest smuggest Reddity game of all gets the prize it deserves.
Tankie
I would not do that.
politically correct / sjw / virtue signal / woke / whatever it’s called next
“Deg#nerate”
Nobody with good opinions uses that word
But based ironic just-a-joke-unless genocide enjoyer Rick Sanchez said that it was
removed for anyone to ask him not to say something is removed.
EDIT: Oh, another removed word. Fuck that word too.
“But… but what if I want to talk about the tendency of DNA to contain redundant sequences?”
Putin
Mostly because it would be funny
You would only encourage the further use of le Putler
Other funny options: “Constitution, founding fathers, individual rights, liberty, ‘he’, just war”
The “human nature” argument. Idk why this line of argument pisses me off more than others. It just feels disingenuous on too many layers maybe.
Anyways I feel like I’ve seen it come up a lot in the last few days. It would be funny to see if the ones arguing it can be classically trained into abandoning it
My first philosophy paper I started with an appeal to human nature and rightfully the prof did destroy that with big bold red markings. I did use the snappy start since I learned from the Economist and the big newspapers, be it Die Zeit or some Anglosphere ones that it is interesting and intellectual to do it.
It is mostly used to strengthen hegemonic ideology, it isn’t scientific and many people using it have no clue about what “natural” is and neither do they have concepts about what did happen in pre-history, but they think they do - as I did, too. It is a scourge.
Lots of things are “natural” that don’t have to happen and in the contemporary world don’t happen anyway. People dying of preventable diseases by drinking from the same water that they bathe and wash in is natural. People having uncorrected vision or being left to die because they are unable to walk when they’re injured is natural. Besides, love and compassion and group solidarity is natural but the libertarian fucks want to lean on “everyone is an insatiable glutton just like me” excuses.
“Females”
Ferengi in shambles! 🌩
🌩
when you open a tab or a browser or an app 🌩
Any time somebody talks about politics through the lens of ‘tribalism’ or boiling ideology down to a ‘my team their team’ situation.
Surely there is a middle ground where the Adults In The Room that Make The Hard Decisions can Get Shit Done by doing only half of the atrocities for a marginally lower increased rate of profit.
God I fucking hate the muh “tribalism” bit. It’s almost as exhausting as American conservatives saying
“RePubliC noT dEmoCraCy”
It’s peak brainworms
“market forces” or just “market”
“Fiscal” would cover lots of chuddery and libshit.
Absolutely. Those “living beyond their means” people would be hit by it, too.