Definitions by Solid Mantis
Female president
A female president would be great, then feminists might stop whining about how unfair life and money is to them and realize that life isn't really fair to anybody who is human instead of keeping a narrow mindset where any group that is not your group treats people wrong and inhuman. Suicide rates for males are likely to stay higher indefinitely no matter who holds office, so despite their whining, you have to wonder who really holds most of the power (if males ever really did beyond on the surface).
A female president would make feminist excuses of not having one disappear, since they're always looking to argue with everybody who isn't female.
Female president by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021
Wrongs
Doing something good doesn't make something bad you did go away. There is no righting wrongs or turning horrors into fairy tales. The one chance you have to right a wrong is when you have the choice to do the wrong, or not do the wrong. If you fuck up, you fucked up, and it comes with consequences, it's as simple as that. There is no erasing one history and replacing it with something that seems to make everybody smile because that isn't reality. The reality is, there are things humans have fucked up at in this country for a long time. One of them was that until yesterday, there had never been a female holding an office as a head of state or a vice head of state. A female getting elected to that position didn't right a wrong, the wrong remains, and the choices will also remain in the future. Racism is also like that, it doesn't get better or go away with time, it has to be worked on otherwise nothing gets done.
Spending a lot of time trying to right wrongs takes time away from things you can take your time on and not fuck up from here, since trying to right wrongs gets nothing done. If you have time to live your life ashamed of every wrong thing you had ever done, you can live your life ashamed, but you're still going to have a lot of shit to do at some point, and there's less and less time to get it done with every day that passes.
Wrongs by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021
Insincere respect
Insincere respect is like an insincere apology, it's about as useful to someone else as jerking off. At least have the balls to be an openly disrespectful asshole who's never going to apologize for your actions if you're not going to respect somebody ese, and you don't have to, you don't owe anybody anything.
Instead of giving someone insincere respect, just give them no respect, and let things sort themselves out, they have a way of doing that. It's even simpler than trying to speak somebody else's language with false apologies and respect to keep peace. If you have to do all that to keep peace with someone else, there wasn't meant to be any peace between the two of you.
Insincere respect by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021
Confederate statues
Confederate statues are as much a part of American history, and what some would call culture, as Martin Luther King statues, whether people love them or hate them. Removal of one kind of statue and not the other isn't multiculturalism, it's one group claiming the park the statue sat on as their own, and it will never unify everybody.
As long as a country says one kind of history is okay as long as everybody likes it, but the other is not, the country will remain divided, since one group, or culture, as some would call it, doesn't really respect the other. That isn't multiculturalism, though America has always been a melting pot, and is made of many different groups of the same (human) race. If people have to remove, forget, or pretend something never existed (including Confederate statues) to validate themselves, they don't really respect it, they only respect their own group (or most likely self).
Confederate statues by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021
Lighting a fire
Trying to force someone else to become compliant with, or get in line with your agenda/policies, especially somebody who regularly tells you to go fuck yourself.
He/she tried lighting a fire under the guy's ass when not taking the word no or the words go fuck yourself for a legitimate answer wasn't working.
Lighting a fire by Solid Mantis January 20, 2021
Morale booster
Someone who gets people's hopes up with talk about unity and peace. Someone who gives people a false sense of morale, which doesn't really do anything for them.
At least if the guy/girl who wasn't a morale booster/motivator wasn't going to do anything for anybody else, he didn't lie to them to make them feel like everything was going to be better than it was. Lighting a fire under somebody's ass is really just a way to get somebody else do what you want them to do, or be in line with your agenda, and being a morale booster/motivator is not much different.
Morale booster by Solid Mantis January 20, 2021
Benign
On the surface, their argument had been about something benign, like a garden hose, but in reality, one was in a power struggle with the other. Only the armed participant saw the shooting as a win, the unarmed participant didnt think anybody won at something like that, but he was dead, so it didn't matter much what he thought, and it hadn't done much good for him to try and explain what he thought, since he got shot for it the first time he did.
Benign by Solid Mantis January 19, 2021