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Grief/tragedy/sympathy machine

A machine that needs functional, cooperative parts to keep going.
If the coronavirus hype didn't keep going, people would begin to wake up. Therefore the grief/tragedy/sympathy machine keeps it going, keeps the misinformation spreading like wildfire.
by Solid Mantis December 10, 2020
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Second tragedy of 9/11

The day two individuals who go by the name Angela and sam begin dating on 9/11
"It reminds me of the second tragedy of 9/11"
by The second tragedy of 9/11 September 11, 2025
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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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Trackside tragedy

A term for track and field runners, implying they are overly dramatic, weak, and lack the competitiveness of real athletes, embodying a sense of failure and insignificance in the sports world
"After watching the race, I couldn't help but think of him as a trackside tragedy, all show and no substance"
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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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Grief tragedy sympathy hope

Hopefully instead of cops everywhere reacting with rage over the news about deaths of young fellow officers, they treat their lives as people treated the life of George Floyd, even if these guys didn't look like you, they were just people that wanted to improve the lives of the people around them and they were happy to be alive trying to do that when they were alive. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry tries to make horror or shock stories to headline the news, and really that does more harm than anything else to what these folks were really about, to focus on things like death all the time.
People that look like anybody can end up like these New York City cops, but how often do you hear much about their lives besides a few seconds on the news, then there is another story. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry might want you to feel a certain way (sad, angry) about something, but they don't tell you that you don't have to if you don't want to.
by The Original Agahnim January 24, 2022
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