The use of legalistic loopholes, cultural relativism, or economic arguments to defend exploitative labor practices (prison labor, debt bondage, abusive migrant worker contracts). It claims these systems are "voluntary" contracts, "cultural norms," or necessary for competitiveness, sanitizing coercion with the language of choice and law.
Example: Defending a corporation's use of prison labor by saying, "It teaches skills and reduces recidivism," while ignoring the perverse incentive to incarcerate and the sub-poverty wages. The modern slavery rationalization rebrands forced, uncompensated labor as rehabilitation and a bargain for taxpayers.
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Example: The FIFA video game series, which each year just adds a new date, minor tweaks, yet it’s essentially the same game.
Example: The FIFA video game series, which each year just adds a new date, minor tweaks, yet it’s essentially the same game.
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Frank: Bruv, it's just the same old game, LOL. They just added a bit of modern paint.
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Frank: Bruv, it's just the same old game, LOL. They just added a bit of modern paint.
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The Equivalent to Dog Shit
Annoying, Overplayed, Unoriginal, repetitive, overuse of beats, too much autotune, bunch of shitty artists making shitty ass repetitive songs and getting famous from it, the same, overused, Repetitive, annoying ass lyrics,
Artists now just say a bunch of random shit and use a bunch of shitty autotune and beats and get famous over it, it's literally nothing but the same shit and it gets worse every time
Pop, rap, Hip hop, Reggaeton, and Brazilian Phonk are the worst types of music
this terrible trend started in the 1990s and got even worse in the 2020s, and it's basically Equal to hearing a baby with the flu crying with car crashes on high pitched on max Volume
Annoying, Overplayed, Unoriginal, repetitive, overuse of beats, too much autotune, bunch of shitty artists making shitty ass repetitive songs and getting famous from it, the same, overused, Repetitive, annoying ass lyrics,
Artists now just say a bunch of random shit and use a bunch of shitty autotune and beats and get famous over it, it's literally nothing but the same shit and it gets worse every time
Pop, rap, Hip hop, Reggaeton, and Brazilian Phonk are the worst types of music
this terrible trend started in the 1990s and got even worse in the 2020s, and it's basically Equal to hearing a baby with the flu crying with car crashes on high pitched on max Volume
every single singer in the entire world: YEAH I KILL PEOPLE BIG ASSES SEXY WOMEN YEAH LOVE LOVE I WANNA KISSS YOU YEAH SHOOT DAT MONKEY DRUGS DRUGS MANGO MANGO MANGO SIPPING THE WONK
Normal Person: what in the absolute fuck is this what even happened to music like this is Dog shit
Guy: well fella that's Modern Music for you
Normal Person: what in the absolute fuck is this what even happened to music like this is Dog shit
Guy: well fella that's Modern Music for you
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by Emotional Cruiser October 7, 2025
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