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Over the last week I could swear I've seen way more LIB types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the latest way of writing us off

  • You're all bots!

  • You may not be bots, but you're all paid agents!

  • You may not be paid agents, but you're all blindly ideological tankies!

  • You may not be blindly ideological, but you're all terminally online basement dwellers!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may not be blindly ideological, but you're all terminally online basement dwellers!

They're awfully fond of the already tiresome "touch grass" cliche, because if you're not clinking glasses in a wine cave and you actually want to improve society somewhat, you must be a shut-in. maybe-later-honey

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I suppose it's just another one of those words that makes ebic bacon redditeurs feel smart when using it

They'll switch to something else next week lol

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Some Reddity words persist for many years, like "vitriol." They love that one.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaslighting disinformation whataboutism

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why the fuck is "troglodyte" an offensive word anyways, seriously, underground dwellings are great for temperature, noise, security, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, cost of construction, disaster preparedness, you name it, they've been used by countless peoples since the dawn of mankind because they're a genuinely great form of housing, honestly we should fucking ALL be troglodytes instead of deforesting the world to build fucking suburbs killing the planet filling the sky with so much light pollution and actual pollution that I can't even see the fucking stars half the time. The McMansion and its consequences have been a disas

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, the housing co-op where I live was actually built into the side of a hill, but not really in a cave dwelling type of way. So I guess I'm more of a half-troglodyte who spends a bizarre amount of time fantasizing about becoming a full troglodyte.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you're describing a hobbit

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I live in a below street row house and it destroyed my mood. Humans are meant to see light.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cave dwellings throughout history have generally had pretty good natural lighting, incidentally, since ancient humans had an even greater need for natural light than modern humans do. Your below street row house having poor enough natural lighting to basically drive a man to depression I'm willing to guess is a lot more to do with cost-cutting on the housing market than anything, honestly.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Very recently I've also seen "Unga Bunga" being said by totally-not-racist racist liberals, and they pretend to be innocent smol beans that totally only think of 90s video games with cavemen when they think "Unga Bunga." morshupls

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Favorite part of federation was the one liberal who couldn’t contain their rabid racism anymore and started unironically doing the “Shling Shong Winnie the Pooh” bit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

YOU ARE A BOT

YOU ARE ALSO A BOT

EVERYONE IS A BOT BUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, our go-to insult for reactionaries is C.H.U.D.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never understood why they have one eye

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they're nowhere close to how they're described in the bible.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are clearly taking a radical housing modernization position, attaching negative connotation to cave-dwelling due to its vulnerability to earthquakes. In a word, psyop.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a dog whistle for "sub-human" fascist language imo

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using it for a while in real life to refer to who we normally call ghouls. Maybe they all got it from me?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

A few years ago the mexican president wacked the leader of the oposition on christmas eve. And while amlo has his flaws the otber guy was a genuine fascist. So i said good ridance and people called me a troglodyte

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I think this makes the most sense.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like it's been a popular 10-dollar insult for a while - something that makes you feel clever because your interlocutor has to spend the 30 seconds a dictionary search takes these days to look it up. The higher prevalence is probably a sign that there's more teenagers around and you should just respond by telling them that sesquipedalianism is a coital impediment.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

When i was a kid i wanted to be like saint francis asis because he lived in a cave and could talk with woodland creatures. So in a way ive always wanted to be a troglodyte.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they probably have another, much nastier word they want to call people, but need to appear "civil" so they use a 19th century insult.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I've been using that word for ages. Aaah I'M THE LIB screm-a aaaa

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's the same group of people who were saying sch*zo 2 weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

left right and centre

wrong - they only punch left

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

The word troglodyte has real "smart kid in fourth grade trying to own his bullies" energy.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Could it be the same person doing it on alts?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

troglodyte left right and centre

I live in the US and in the few decades I never heard a right-winger use that word. It seems insane now but long ago many republicans used to see themselves as worldly and intellectual and liberals the opposite. In the 1980s when I was old enough to be interested in politics - it's possible I saw or heard a republican like William F. Buckley use it. I can imagine somebody like him using the word to describe any liberal who in their mind was uncouth, unrefined, unsophisticated with "radical" interests like a fondness for the Grateful Dead or granola or something.

Way back in the day - republicans used to be (very) unintentionally funny. Now they tend to be tedious, corporate drone humorless freaks like Ted Cruz.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

maybe there are a lot of viagra boys fans on the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's because all libs have started playing HEROES OF MIGHT AND MAGIC III.
They were infuriated that the scene was dominated by russians, so they've taken to using the weakest unit as an insult (Pirate town best town)

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