Reputable source

A source that has a reputation, and also has a reputation to lose.

Scientists had been called a reputable source of information rather than misinformation about the coronavirus, and people were told not to question why scientists were reputable or had accurate information nobody else had.

by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021

Reputation

How divorced is it from identity? Inextricably linked? Entirely divorced? Somewhere inbetween? And how would you define it? I would say Reputation: How you are perceived by others across time. It's an impossibility for it to be tied to your ability to 'act ethically' because you can act ethically or unethically while no one else is around and, therefore, would not affect your reputation. "Acting ethically" is entirely independent from "being seen acting ethically."

Hym "Instances where reputation is incongruent with identity are myriad. A statistical reality. And I would even go as far as to say that it's commonplace in the realm of celebrity. As a matter of fact, who outside of celebrity even has an articulable reputation of any real significance? Look at you, I mean, you have a reputation that ranges (literally) from 'great prophet of our generation' to 'a literal super Nazi' What is anyone supposed to do with that? And how do you base a society on it? AND how does that not devolve into a sort of Chinese communist party-esque social credit score system? You have said that the psychoanalysts are wrong and that identity is something that is mediated by the public. If you accept the definition above, how is that not a conflation of reputation and identity? It seems (to me) that you are arguing that 'persona' should take precedence over 'the self.' Which is a proposition I disagree with. But I'll expound on that later... I'm tired..."

by Hym Iam August 2, 2022

Reputation

The worse and most volatile currency imaginable.

Hym "Your need for your reputation to be paramount in your identity is the reason 'cancel culture' exists. It's too volatile as a form of currency and the act of Twitter mobs taking people out left and right is evidence of that fact. I mean, what does my reputation look like? It depends on who you ask. If you ask the guy about whom I said 'Should I wait for him to die and drag his kids to hell with me?' and the guy who wrote an anime series about me; you will get two different answers. And what constitutes 'deserved prestige?' Because what it sounds like is 'I deserve this and the people I don't like don't deserve it.' in an Animal farm type of 'Well, some people are more deserving of prestige than others.' Who deserves it? You? Who deserves it MORE? The guy who had to glue a book that no one would read to the Bible to sell it? Or the guy who writes a metatext that people CAN'T STOP reading that is literally the prerequisite text for a plurality of creative works and proved that anyone can string together a bunch of quotes from they're favorite authors and do what you do now?

And how far is Dr. Jordan Peterson willing to go to prevent people from gaining 'undeserved' reputation? Would he... steal and redistribute ideas? Would he (as a clinician) sign off on the public gaslighting and stalking of a sovereign individual? You also can't steal reputation. Which is a prerequisite for considering something currency. Ideas, on the other hand, can be stolen. It's easier to do if you stick to dead people but you can also do it to people who don't have any power."

Ryan "Gangstalking is a real thing and he's signing off on it because it makes him feel like his daughter is safe!

Hym "Ah! Jesus Christ! You can't just sneak up on people like that! Get outta here! Go! Get out!"

by Hym Iam August 19, 2022

uber repus

a person so fascinated and so blinded by republicanism that they hear only one sentance "gaad you ah awsome"

These people also reside only in Massachustets

Mr Kerry: jeeze massachusets is a blue state but dayum did you see all those uber repus? i thought fo sho bush was gunna have this state

Mr Dean: heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaayeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaa

by Teo St. Pierre June 27, 2006

office repulsion

Is the healthy state of disgust towards the bullshit and bureaucracy of the office that will save a henchgoon from spending the rest of his/her life crammed into a veal-fattening pen, repeating the same mindless and never-ending routine ad infinitum. When office repulsion gives way to comfort zone laziness: GAME OVER!

Veteran henchgoon: “Could you do something I ask you just once with a smile on your face??”

Newbie temp-henchgoon: “No can do! I need to keep my office repulsion up or I’ll turn into a sad bastard like you and I’ll still be here in twenty years, grinning stupidly and deluding myself into thinking everything is just terrific!”

by Dick K Redcar January 20, 2010

rita repulsa!

Used by gay men to express disgust or rejection of an object, event or evil queen.

We went out to eat and his ex came to say hi at our table. Rita Repulsa! Like, what are you doing here? Shoo!

Rita Repulsa! I can't believe you're eating carbs on a weekday! (or at all)

by LoKi of the Internetz March 16, 2017

republicans

Members of one of America's two largest political parties which, like it or not, are equals in opression as well as service. It has recently become trendy to hate them, because Green Day tells us to. It is better to be a republican than a tool whose information is force-fed to him through the hose of MTV's *infinite* wisdom.

Tool #1: Dude, Bush is a douche
Tool #2: Yeah. I don't wanna be an American Idiot. Let's go smoke some weed.
Non-Tool: Hey, or you could smoke a shotgun, instead.

by double-barrel doobie July 7, 2005