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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Magician@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Rural Amerikkkans telling me how much they need their car

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

unlimited-power

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

”Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[-] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Deg#nerate”

Nobody with good opinions uses that word

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago
[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 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.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Putin

Mostly because it would be funny

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[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

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...

[-] JuneFall@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"market forces" or just "market"

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

"i'm into electroplay"

[-] Zodiark@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

"Bot" when encountering cognitive dissonance.

[-] Lochat@hexbear.net 8 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.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] daisy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

My work email address. Everytime someone composes an email to me they'd have to decide "is this question worth the mild electrical shock or could I just Google this?" and I'd honestly take a pay cut to make this happen.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 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

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 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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