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Definitions by Dictionnaire Diabolique

Karen feminism

The faux-feminism popular amongst the likes of Kirsten Gillibrand. It's popular because it allows wealthy white women to throw their male relatives under the bus whilst sneaking out the back door of Privilege Mansion before the woke bombs hit.
That article in UnHerd about "The Sly Sexism of the OK Karen Meme" is peak Karen feminism.

punchable voice 

A voice that is so annoying that it makes you want to punch the speaker.
I was listening to Sam Harris’s podcast when Anna-Liisa woke up this morning. This is what she said to me: “You know how the French have that great expression ‘tête à claques’ (or ‘face à claques’), which roughly translates to ‘punchable face’, a face that’s so annoying that you just wanna punch it? Well, Sam Harris has a punchable voice.”
adj. Related to, suffering from, or seeming to suffer from COVID-19 or the ill-effects of the quarantine.
For instance: “Damn, John, that’s a pretty covidy haircut you’ve got there.” Or: “That sweaty covidy cougher in the grocery store was freaking me out.”
A person who seems to be suffering from COVID-19.
That sweaty guy in the grocery store was giving off a distinctly covidy vibe.

hate hard-on 

An irrationally intense and obsessive hatred for something or someone.
Damn! Irfan has a major hate hard-on for Phil, doesn't he?

TechCarthyism 

A movement using mainstream tech-platforms like Twitter and YouTube to socially engineer thought-level compliance to a radical political agenda through Star Chambers (e.g. “Trust and Safety”), shadow bans, show-trials (court of public opinion), de-platforming, and uneven enforcement of Terms of Service. The term was coined by Eric Weinstein.
Sam Harris just canceled his Patreon account in protest against the rising tide of TechCarthyism.

senseless violence 

Violence whose sense fails to accord with your political ideology.
Vice President Mike Pence tweeted about the "senseless violence" in Las Vegas.