regressive activism

Well intended progressive Individuals or groups that believe progress is a never-ending liner upward trend. They use their strong beliefs in an ideal future work to move society towards a defined goal, only to over shoot it and begin to regress through more extreme views until hardly distinguishable from those who they initially blamed. This results in fracturing of the fundamental ideas that started the movement, as to alienate people formally for the cause and to push away others due to the increase of rhetoric.

I used to believe in this cause, but due to regressive activism, I no longer align with their views.

by Corrupt Giant September 28, 2023

Regression to the Gene

"Regression to the Gene" is the uncanny and often hilarious phenomenon where, despite one's valiant efforts, countless self-help books, and even the occasional life-changing seminar, an individual's behavior, quirks, and even sneeze patterns inevitably circle back to mirror those of their family tree. It's as if your DNA has a sense of humor, ensuring that no matter how hard you try to reinvent yourself, you'll find yourself laughing like your dad at bad jokes, hoarding condiments like your mom, or even adopting grandpa's infamous eyebrow wiggle during serious conversations. This cosmic joke of nature proves that you can take the person out of the family, but you can't take the family out of the person. So next time you catch yourself saying, "I'll never be like my parents!" remember, regression to the gene waits for no one, ready to remind you that family traits stick closer than that one sock you can't seem to get rid of.

"After years of yoga and meditation to calm his fiery temper, John exploded over a spilled coffee, proving once again the inescapable pull of regression to the gene. He laughed it off, saying, 'Well, looks like I'm truly my father's son!'"

by anuragbas February 5, 2024

repress

when your in a spikeball tournament and your selling your team so then you have to lock in and repress.

“Time to repress”

by hellenkeller2898 April 18, 2024

repressions

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person1: repressions is so hot and sexy

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by sexylies July 5, 2024

regressivism

A political ideology aimed at rolling back societal progress, mainly where social justice and equal rights are concerned. It can be opposed to any background, class, creed, ethnicity, gender, language, nation, race, religion, sex, etc. Usually specific to the region, society and time. Often confused with conservatism. Whereas conservatism attempts to prevent new social change, regressivism aims to reverse existing change entirely. Regressivists often hide under the incorrect label of conservatism which has the effect of sanitizing their beliefs.

JOŽO: Dežo calls himself a conservative, but I know for a fact he wants to take away already existing rights.
FERO: His ideology is not conservatism, it is regressivism.

by pookapine March 19, 2026

Repressed Memories

Oh! That ties into the very thing I was just saying.

Hym "I was talking explicitly about repressed memories. Where I ask if you have ever wonder whether or not you have any repressed memories and then I as an example I say 'Like do I have any repressed molestation memories' and then I tie that in to an anecdote about a sleep over I had once as a child. But as I said in the second to last post, if I call in to question whether or not something is the case, THEY lie and say that I made an affirmative claim and then they pretend to debunk that very claim that I did not actually ever make. And if you want to know why they do it Bonnie, it's because UNLIKE SCHOOL SHOOTERS they needed to be instructed to do it by someone. Someone who knew what I wrote, made a decision to attribute to me a claim that I didn't ever make, and then told other people both that I made some claim and then fabricated out of thin air the negation of that claim. So what they do is 'He said this but actually it's this and he's bad.' But there was no 'He said.' That actually occurred. And then they omit entirely the fact that THE CONCLUSION... ALREADY HAPPENED. The conclusion because Jorfan Peterson saying 'That's not actually who repressed memories work.' And then me going 'Oh. OK.' And then it was done. But they are trying to drag this out a much as they possibly can because THEY KNOW that they stop mattering the second this is over."

by Hym Iam October 10, 2025

Regressive Insanity Syndrome

Pronunciation: /rɪˈɡrɛsɪv ɪnˈsænɪti ˈsɪndroʊm/
noun

1. A psychological and metaphysical condition observed in individuals who experience cyclical temporal regression, typically triggered by death, and return to a fixed point in their personal timeline. The syndrome describes the progressive erosion of sanity and the conscious adoption of a fractured psyche as a direct result of the accumulated trauma from repeated deaths and lived experiences across multiple timelines.

2. The defining state where the subject ceases to perceive regression as a failure or a punishment, and instead weaponizes the process. By deliberately absorbing the existential dissonance and psychic feedback of their fractured existence, the subject transforms latent insanity into a source of power, strategic insight, or unconventional ability, viewing each life and death as an experimental data point for achieving a superordinate goal.

Characters like 'Kim Gong-Ja' from the manhwa "SSS Class Suicide Hunter" and 'Encrid' from the manhwa "Eternally Regressing Knight" use their eternal regression curse as a tool and a method to get stronger, meanwhile also obtaining the insanity of being able to tolerate pain and death tens and even hundreds of times without giving up. This is the definition of the 'Regressive Insanity Syndrome'

by relentlessR3 October 19, 2025