Solid Mantis's definitions

Mask mandate

Somebody who wants you to get in line with their agenda in order to lift a mask mandate still wants to keep you from standing as a whole person again. When you compromise, you are no longer a whole person.

If you've went through the mask mandate almost a year and you're still here, and you're not sick, why would you compromise or get in line now, even if half of your state has done it and more will follow? Don't give up on something because someone tells you it's a dark tunnel, even if they also tell you tell you there's a light at the end of it. When someone else takes control of your fate, they might try to get you run over by a train in a tunnel, all because you were willing to compromise with them.

by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021

Poser

Someone who thinks they've worked harder at everything than everyone else throughout their lives. Someone who thinks everyone else was just joking around or playing games while they were more committed than everyone else, outdoing them at everything.

He/she was the worst kind of poser, the kind that wanted/expected to be taken seriously at least some of the time (when he/she wanted to, or at oppurtune times). He/she had a high opinion of himself/herself.

by Solid Mantis January 27, 2021

Unemployment

Unemployed with benefits is not true stability, so most people wouldn't choose it over having a steady job for an extended time.

Most people dont think of unemployment as a good thing.

by Solid Mantis May 29, 2020

Wienie wacker

A good bunch to have arrested when you're trying to make quota at the end of the month.

Where you goin with the mask I found wienie wacker?

by Solid Mantis March 30, 2018

Privacy

A lot of times people say privacy when they mean personal freedom.

When you hear someone talking about what degree of privacy they are willing to give up, they really mean what degree of personal freedom are people willing to give up. There are people who call other people selfish or narcissistic just to try and get them to give up more of their personal freedom.

by Solid Mantis August 26, 2020

Imitation

Sometimes it takes more humility not to be an imitation, not to do everything someone else does, or try and talk like someone else, and to really know that they're different from you, rather than the same. You dont have to give anybody credit you havent taken, but without humility, you'll always try to give credit and try to get other people to do the same because you know you've been busy taking credit from somewhere else, then claim that you had to do all this for someone else, when really it's always been your own lack of humility.

Imitation comes from thinking everybody is the same because everyone is human. Of course everyone is human, of course nobody is more human and nobody is less human, that doesnt mean there aren't the small, subtle things that make each person different than the next. Doing something you saw somebody else do, even if you alter it a little bit, or try to add to it to outdo the person you're imitating, doesnt make you the same as them, any more than talking the way they would talk or saying shit they would say makes you the same as them. There is no speaking any language but your own, people dont go for your shit when you try and speak theirs. Some of us don't give credit or feel that its owed to anybody, since we're not taking any from anybody.

by Solid Mantis September 18, 2020

Vaccine hoarding

Vaccine hoarding is a lot like toilet paper hoarding when the pandemic started, it's silliness. There's enough vaccines to go around for the rest of the world to the people that want to get one just like there was enough toilet paper to go around for everybody at the start of the pandemic, then a few people hoarded the supply and tried to sell it for outrageous prices on ebay. The vaccine hoarding is really about power and control, not about protecting a population.

It helps no one to vaccinate everyone in one country while no one from another country has been vaccinated, since all you are really giving people is a placebo and a false sense of hope/morale boost when they get a shot in their arm. The virus is everywhere, not just in the countries that got the most vaccines, so vaccine hoarding won't really do anybody any good. The countries that got excessive amounts of vaccines they don't need might as well get rid of their vaccines if they are not going to give them to countries that could use them.

by Solid Mantis March 9, 2021