"I want my country back..."
Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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I don't care about politics
Anytime anybody tells you "I don't do drama", 99% of the time they are the cause of all the drama.
Actually chill people pretty much never bring it up.
What about people who say that they like drama
AKA younger siblings, if you're into the whole brevity thing
For years I avoided TNT for just this reason, always figured it would explode my life
the new testament ?
Any time anyone starts throwing insults and slurs at me like a Frisbee in lieu of an actual counterarguement
Corporate jargon outside the office. Hell, even in the office when itβs over the top.
Ping me when you circle back to this, we might surface more examples granted weβve still got bandwidth for it.
"I tell it like it is" Proceeds to be bizzarly racist/ sexist/ homophobic and then gets offended at everyone when they tell them to knock it off.
"I'm not political" almost always really means "I think Hitler did nothing wrong"
One time I said "oh I don't get involved in politics" by which I meant, "I don't organize with any particular party" (which was the context). But I think about that all the time and hope they did not think what I always think when people say they are apolitical.
I'm very political, I just generally prefer non-partisan work.
βIβm a patriot!β
Okay so, 1) I wasnβt questioning your patriotism until you said that. And 2) with zero exceptions, everyone Iβve ever heard say that turned out to be a Christian nationalist.
I think "patriot" is one of those titles that should only be given, and that ideally happens to someone who's done something especially heroic or monumental for their country. I think of myself as patriotic, because I care a lot about my country despite its enormous, gangrenous flaws. I want to help it realize its potential. But to say "I'm a patriot" these days β I agree with you β really only connotes blind nationalism.
Words that used unironically/outside of satire, automatically signal you as a chud:
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Libtard
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Foid
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Carnist
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Lookmaxxing
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Mog/Mogging
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Any kind of slur
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Woke (at least, the word is generally only brought up now by chuds complaining about things being woke)
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DEI in a negative manner
What is lookmaxxing? It sounds like a fashion statement
I think the way to read the whole -maxxing suffix is "to maximise what comes before"
So lookmaxxing is maximising one's looks. I find the usage of the double x irksome, personally.
I think it's incel for having a shower.
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"Israel has a right to self defense."
And then it turns out that they know less about the conflict than my senile grandmother.
Bit of an older one, had it come up recently and it reminded me of when I was younger: βbleeding hearts/bleeding heart liberalsβ. lol okay, sandbrain.
Any time someone gets a big old smirk on their face while they say, "Oh, I've got some controversial opinions," that usually means they're just a degenerate edgelord. Like, making a big show about how spicy your hot takes are is just the attention-grabbing behavior of someone who lives off of criticism because they are incapable of getting along with others.
I mean, I have some controversial opinions. For example: let's feed Peter Thiel to a shark, but a small shark, so that it takes a while. And sometimes you're not in an environment where you can say that. But if that's the case, then you just don't bring it up. If you are in a place where you can say that, then have the confidence to just say it.
But some people need to first make the conversation about them, and about how damn controversial they're about to be, before they've even said something in the first place. They're just enjoying the attention. Like they're edging to how heterodox they're about to be. And they're probably about to tell you that we were better off before women had college degrees.
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