The Original Agahnim's definitions

Machiavellian victory

Something that seems like a win for everybody involved that doesn't lose everything, though they're often not actually getting/keeping everything, and are actually slowly losing little by little over a long period of time.

People thought it was a Machiavellian victory when a few houses in their neighborhood were burned down or gentrified, then a few more houses and neighbors were lost, and lost everything in the process, then a few more, until finally there was nothing left of what was once their neighborhood. The machine, and the people that were part of the machine took it from them, and they let it slip away from them without ever wak8ng up to fight for it.

by The Original Agahnim May 28, 2021

Counter culture coup

When a group of people acts like people they previously tried to make fun of or call weird earlier in life, but they're actually replacing anything that is unique (or old) with something a bit more bubblegum pop (or new) and mainstream (but don't want their activities to be transparent or obvious to anyone) by claiming to be/posing as the raw person's kind of raw, the outlaw's outlaw.

He/she/they were a part of a secret society/organization trying to launch a successful counter culture coup that established counter surveillance on anything that represented anything left of the old counter culture to replace it with a new bland version of it, and a new guard to guard it.

by The Original Agahnim December 14, 2021

Socially acceptable

If people don't know about it, calling it socially acceptable isn't socially responsible.

Once Doctor Sawyer got fired, he was no longer socially acceptable at Macy's. All that studying he did wasn't going to do anything for him. He had told everyone he was socially acceptable, but he wasn't telling anyone the full reality of anything.

by The Original Agahnim December 26, 2021

No

A word that some of us have said much longer than the past year, and won't stop when it becomes more popular to say yes. You either stand for something or you continue to fall for everything and everyone.

The dork girl thought him saying the word no was just a fashionable trend or a phase for him, based on events like the coronavirus and restrictions, because she didn't take no as a legitimate answer, and had him confused with a yes man.

by The Original Agahnim July 30, 2021

motivation

Something people could use a little bit less of.

Serial killers have higher levels of motivation than most people.

by The Original Agahnim November 26, 2021

Agree

Reaching an agreement is missing the point.

He shot the guy over a garden hose because they didn't agree about it instead of because he was a real asshole or couldn't be trusted to live and let live. That's not a good reason to shoot somebody.

by The Original Agahnim November 14, 2021

Home

Where you come from. Where you live is just where you live, and you are a guest there always, as home is where you come from originally.

For him/her Pennsylvania would always be home, as home is where the heart is. Nothing wrong with that, but trying to be something you're not or calling the locals fools isn't going to get you in anything but trouble.

by The Original Agahnim December 16, 2021