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Possible additions: 'homo economicus'

Wtf is with all of this?

Edit: Ok, so from what I've gathered, you guys are basically a million Progressive podcasts' communities hiding under a trenchcoat that you call a Lemmy community...

homo economicus

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[–] context@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bazinga comes from the "young sheldon" tv show. it's used here to refer to liberal technocrats who believe the problems of the world can be solved with sufficiently advanced algorithms, that humans are simply waiting for someone smart enough to come along to invent solutions to the problem caused by capitalism.

the treat discourse is a slowly simmering struggle session about how leftists in the imperial core should interact with the treat economy, whereby behavior is incentivized by access to treats: minor luxuries, tasty but not very nutritious food and snacks, the carrot of capitalism's carrot and stick. "slop" is hog feed and we're the hogs, demanding content, entertainment, and treats.

"adults in the room making/doing hard decisions" is just making fun of neoliberals and centrists who see themselves as mature, responsible, logical, rational, capable of setting aside their emotional reactions to atrocities around the world in order to wisely compromise with the people committing those atrocities and benefit materially from them.

there are a few users who use these terms more, but i don't think any one person was responsible for coining them.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

there are a few users who use these terms more, but i don't think any one person was responsible for coining them.

I didn't say though it had to be one person that created it... it's not like all of these things are directly derived from Yakub's brain genius...

[–] context@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you asked "who decided" which i interpreted to mean one person shrug-outta-hecks

Ok, fair point...

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that mongrel yakub deserved to be beaten with a rat stick for cursing us with colonoid settlers

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rat stick?

Is that the one that's supposed to be used on Joe Biden...

(Joe Biden is a rabid dog, he should be beaten to death with a stick)

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Considering Biden's old decrepit sundowning ass, a regular stick'd do the same as a rat stick to him