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A way for some folks to claim that if you donate enough money, morale will get better.
The people claiming to be morale boosters were making a lot of money off the grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis, but would be quick to try and tear morale apart again if they needed more money for another grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis. The reality is nobody's morale needs a boost.
by Solid Mantis November 6, 2020
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Political Tragedy

A political stunt/figure resulting in failure, serious/backfiring consequences, or pointless inconvenience
Russia declaring war on Ukraine was a political tragedy
No free healthcare? That's a political tragedy
George Bush was a political tragedy
This bill the politicians put in recently is gonna be a political tragedy
The United Kingdom is a political tragedy in itself
by mart60 October 10, 2025
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Grief/tragedy/sympathy guilt trip

News stories that get more and more desperate until people submit into doing anything the media/government/healthcare industry/scientists want them to do.
Last week's grief/tragedy/sympathy guilt trip was a recycled story from the Trump era about a young guy that still thought the coronavirus was a hoax until he ended up in ICU. When that didn't increase vaccination rates, the grief/tragedy/sympathy industry got more desperate and had a guy talking emotionally about how you can save his one year old in Arkansas even if you live halfway across the country by getting in line for a vaccine. Just do what these people say and everyone will be okay, just meet their demands is what the grief/tragedy/sympathy industry is trying to prime people's subconcious with.
by The Original Agahnim August 11, 2021
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Tweeting Tragedy

An instance in which an individual who tweets on a regular basis thinks of an inspiring and authentic tweet; however in the process of going to tweet this inspiring thought, the individual forgets what he/she was going to tweet
Today, I logged onto Twitter then had a tweeting tragedy.
He thought of something incredible to tweet, then had a tweeting tragedy.
I saw someone else's tweet then had a tweeting tragedy.
by DanDoellion August 17, 2011
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Tragedy

The opposite of strategy is not the absence of strategy, rather it is tragedy such that ways are found of using available means to achieve undesirable ends. People use what they have to get what they don’t want or arrive where they don’t want to be or shape a future they didn’t want. When all the available means necessary to accomplish something good are used to accomplish something bad, this is tragic, not strategic.
That’s not a strategy, it’s a tragedy.
by Dr Max July 2, 2022
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Grief tragedy sympathy industry

Cops learn that if they break down and cry to a shrink after using their weapons, they get support, and both cops and civilians that know they will be on TV know just how to break down at the right time and "express" sorrow for what they did, thinking that will make them less wrong. When was the last time you heard a cop or a civilian that shot an unarmed protestor or black guy say

"Not a day goes by that I don't feel absolutely no remorse about what I did, they got what was coming to them!" The reason you never hear that on TV is nobody wants to make what's coming for them any worse than what it is, nobody wants to intensify what is coming for them.
Something you never hear on TV's grief tragedy sympathy industry-

Armed Civilian- Yea I shot the son of a bitch, so what, who cares. Gimme the electric chair, hang me, or shut the fuck up you fucking cunt!

Judge- I will do as you wish, I will sentence you to death, you will get what you deserve without further adieu!
by The Original Agahnim November 17, 2021
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The Great Tragedy

A phrase used to describe either someone's birthday, someone's conception or the September 11th Attacks
" Wow, Dave, I can't believe you were born on the day of the Great Tragedy."
"You know I wasn't born on 9/11 right?"
"No, I'm talking about the day your mother was born"
"Shit"
by BoobaFeet42021 January 19, 2022
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