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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. sicko-wistful

smuglord "Umm, I'm sorry, honestly, but let's be honest here. It's almost as if..."

unlimited-power

wojak-nooo "Wow, vitriol much?"

unlimited-power

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

soypoint-1 whataboutism soypoint-2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

morshupls "As a (insert appropriated LGBTQIA+/black/leftist-as-they-come identity here), the problem is other (LGBTQIA+/black/leftists)..."

unlimited-power

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of debate bros suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It would be so much better. The social games aren't even fun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I have to be honest to my boss? I will be fired instantly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rural Amerikkkans telling me how much they need their car

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shock them until they agitate and organize into a mass transit movement! train-shining

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hook their genitals up to a 25kV catenary

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeonmi-park 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

”Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The stupidest smuggest Reddity game of all gets the prize it deserves. unlimited-power

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

wojak-nooo "You don't agree with the US foreign policy, you must be a bot"

unlimited-power

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

“Deg#nerate”

Nobody with good opinions uses that word

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But based ironic just-a-joke-unless genocide enjoyer Rick Sanchez said that it was soypoint-1 removed for anyone to ask him not to say something is removed. soypoint-2

EDIT: Oh, another removed word. Fuck that word too.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

politically correct / sjw / virtue signal / woke / whatever it's called next

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Putin

Mostly because it would be funny

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You would only encourage the further use of le Putler angery

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Other funny options: "Constitution, founding fathers, individual rights, liberty, 'he', just war"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ferengi in shambles! 🌩 quark 🌩

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

when you open a tab or a browser or an app 🌩

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any time somebody talks about politics through the lens of 'tribalism' or boiling ideology down to a 'my team their team' situation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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. so-true

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Whenever someone says CCP... extra volts to the balls if they say "the international community", "regime" or any other geopolitical buzzwords they've pulled out their ass...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"market forces" or just "market"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Fiscal" would cover lots of chuddery and libshit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Those "living beyond their means" people would be hit by it, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"i'm into electroplay"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Whenever someone misuses the word "logic" to mean "reason(albe/ing) because they don't know what logic is, which would make the word almost unused. Would be so nice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah no/mindpalace/this rules/it's lit

"Bot" when encountering cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would make it some random very uncommon word that everyone knew, then people who like being shocked could say it whenever they want. This would be my great gift to humanity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Sort of like a Deus Ex killswitch, but for horny purposes. pingu-horny

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you respond to what you want the other person to have said instead of what they actually said, thats a zappin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Variations of “I’m going to play devil’s advocate”

It covers annoying ass contrarians and people who want to watch the movie

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