A situation where one side at the negotiating table flaunts their so-called “leverage” without realizing that by showing their cards, they’ve pretty much given away all their power because they’ve become entirely predictable.
Me: Damn, dawg - I was playin’ against some invisible niggbo and it was freakey how them hits kept cummin’ outta nowhere - but once he lost his mask, all I could see is a weak, old dude puffing up his chest, trying to be scary ...
Dawg: Kay, so small fries after that, right? Buncha pseudo “leverage”?
Me: Aye, piece of cake. Dickbo didn’t realize he didn’t have shit one me 🤣
Dawg: Tite!
Dawg: Kay, so small fries after that, right? Buncha pseudo “leverage”?
Me: Aye, piece of cake. Dickbo didn’t realize he didn’t have shit one me 🤣
Dawg: Tite!
by SackmaBooolz November 28, 2019
That's what this seems to be about for you. Bill C-16 gives your students a degree of arbitrary social leverage that you weren't willing to afford them.
Hym "Hey, I really didn't use your work for a whole lot initially. I was saying back then what YOU are saying NOW because I was going though the thing that you are actively doing now. I had no recourse. I had no way of defending myself. I didn't even have the vocabulary to defend myself. The only tool I had to defend myself because I WAS (and still am) going though what you ARE going though. And I'm not allowed to use it because IT'S AGAINST THE RULES. And then I started critiquing it. And that's my REAL crime. It's like the chicken and the grasshopper. See, the chicken had a theory. And he thought his theory couldn't be contended with. Unfortunately for the chicken, there was a fatal flaw. You see, in the same way that there are two classes of fear, there are two classes of genius. And the grasshopper is both. So, like the brilliant deconstructionist that he is, the grasshopper began to contend with those uncontendwithable ideas. Jokingly at first. The chicken was enraged. His shining golden-god moment was sullied by the grasshopper.
Hym "Hey, I really didn't use your work for a whole lot initially. I was saying back then what YOU are saying NOW because I was going though the thing that you are actively doing now. I had no recourse. I had no way of defending myself. I didn't even have the vocabulary to defend myself. The only tool I had to defend myself because I WAS (and still am) going though what you ARE going though. And I'm not allowed to use it because IT'S AGAINST THE RULES. And then I started critiquing it. And that's my REAL crime. It's like the chicken and the grasshopper. See, the chicken had a theory. And he thought his theory couldn't be contended with. Unfortunately for the chicken, there was a fatal flaw. You see, in the same way that there are two classes of fear, there are two classes of genius. And the grasshopper is both. So, like the brilliant deconstructionist that he is, the grasshopper began to contend with those uncontendwithable ideas. Jokingly at first. The chicken was enraged. His shining golden-god moment was sullied by the grasshopper.
And then the grasshopper began to posit HIS OWN IDEAS. And what's more, everyone loved it. They didn't just love it. It was objectively brilliant. Poetry and prose the likes of which the world had never seen. Comedy skits, philosophy, theology, social psychology. Literally billions of dollars worth of ideas. And not just quality but quantity as well. An untapped wellspring of new ideas. Some speculation. From conceptual arms deal to archetypal hero (and villian sometimes) over night.... and shit, I'm running out of characters.... Long story short, the grasshopper is now technically one of the greatest writer's all time and I forgot to use the words 'social leverage'. Shit. I went off half cocked here. I'll come back to it.
by Hym Iam January 12, 2023
A fancy way to use the noun "leverage" in a PowerPoint presentation. Alternatively, a great way to use a big word that is not actually a word.
by SmartyPants8 October 29, 2018
by kitchenspazz April 27, 2016