39 definitions by q359
Stuff that is not medicine, and has no medicinal properties, but conspiracy theorists and other dumbasses insist is the REAL medicine, because the entire healthcare field is a sham, or something, and the knowledge of people from 500-1000 years ago when they didn't even have toilets is superior to modern science.
Don't listen to those Big Pharma quacks telling you to get radiation treatment for your cancer, here, drink this soup of tree bark and lemongrass, it's alternative medicine.
by q359 July 25, 2023
A word that extremely-online Marxists and tankies like to use, that no normal person knows or cares what the fuck means.
Some edgy communist online started mumbling some shit about praxis and the finer points of Bolshevism vs. Trotskyism, and I told him to go outside.
by q359 July 25, 2023
Horseshit is a form of nonsense that is subtly different from bullshit, in that bullshit is something that the person preaching KNOWS is nonsense, but preaches anyway (disingenuously), whereas horseshit is nonsense that the person actually fully believes, because they are stupid.
When Joe Biden says that he cares about migrants, that is bullshit. When Trumpers believe that Biden stole the election, that is horseshit.
by q359 July 26, 2023
Postmodernism is a philosophy that holds that there are no such things as truth, facts, or objective reality, and such concepts are oppressive tools of the white male power structure. A common postmodernist refrain is "Perception is reality". Rather than there being an objective reality that everyone is perceiving through lenses that can and do contain distortions, postmodernism teaches that reality is different for every person, and there is no such thing as a false narrative. An old expression says that "There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the cold, hard truth". Postmodernism gets rid of that third side. Everybody's worldview, right down to the mentally disturbed person screaming on the subway about the end times, is equally valid. Young-earth creationists, flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and Q-Anon cultists are taken seriously, and have followings, because of postmodernism. Before postmodernism, these people would have been roundly dismissed as idiots, and rational minds would set the record straight.
We went from there being three news channels that admittedly told a slanted narrative, to one where there are millions of "news sources" to choose from to fit your own personal narrative. And we went from one stifling, oppressive (usually religiously-driven) set of moral standards, to NO moral standards whatsoever, and complete moral relativism. Because no answers is better than one answer, and you must NEVER tell a person that they're wrong.
We went from there being three news channels that admittedly told a slanted narrative, to one where there are millions of "news sources" to choose from to fit your own personal narrative. And we went from one stifling, oppressive (usually religiously-driven) set of moral standards, to NO moral standards whatsoever, and complete moral relativism. Because no answers is better than one answer, and you must NEVER tell a person that they're wrong.
When I was a kid I was foolishly taught that the sky was blue, but now, thanks to postmodernism, I know that the sky is whatever color a person believes it to be.
by q359 June 25, 2023
by q359 June 28, 2023
A term that means absolutely nothing at all, but that people claim to practice when they want to sound deep, and mystically wise, but it's not RELIGION, they would never practice anything so crass and gauche as RELIGION, of course, they want to let you know that they're not like those silly God-botherers, no, THEY just engage in the exact type of magical thinking as religious followers, but don't even have the "God" excuse to fall back on.
Dumbass: Ever since I fucked up my life, I've decided to begin practicing spirituality. I'm not religious, I'm spiritual.
Rational Person: What the fuck does that even mean?
Rational Person: What the fuck does that even mean?
by q359 July 25, 2023
An affliction that causes people to say things to people over the distance of an Internet connection that, if they ever DARED to say to a person in a face-to-face conversation, would likely result in them getting knocked on their ass and maybe a trip to the hospital, but behind the safety of their monitor where nobody can physically touch them, they can behave like complete and utter shitbirds with no consequences, because as we all know, the Internet isn't real, of course, and the person you're mouthing off to isn't a real human being, with emotions of their own.
It is closely related to the similar affliction that causes people to become total sociopaths when behind the wheel of a car, where they are similarly safe from physical retribution.
It is closely related to the similar affliction that causes people to become total sociopaths when behind the wheel of a car, where they are similarly safe from physical retribution.
If the technology were invented tomorrow to make it possible to punch a person in the face over TCP/IP, Internet Badass Syndrome would vanish almost overnight, and the Internet would be the most civil, polite place ever.
by q359 July 26, 2023