Democratic Crime Reduction

The decriminalization of every known criminal activity, so that nothing is illegal. This also creates a lawless society. Nothing is illegal in a lawless society.

Only an act of God's will can save us from Democratic Crime Reduction. The best democrat is a dead one, and I died 22 years ago. Let us elect my Holy Okie Godfather "Lord Bud" A real spiritual voice of reason.

by Spiritual-Master January 7, 2022

reductive

Meaning to present a problem in a smaller, more crude form. Searches spiked after Madonna answered to the question "What do you think of Lady Gaga's Born This Way?" with "It's... um.. reductive".

Lady Gaga's song "Born This Way" is reductive. It is a similar song to Madonna's "Express Yourself"

by treybrown10 February 20, 2012

Class Reductionism

The idea in some leftist circles that all oppression based on gender, sex, race, etc. is just a byproduct of class struggle, and that once class disparity is solved, all those issues will vanish

"John thinking racism will stop existing after the revolution is a display of class reductionism"

by nddragoon July 17, 2020

Reductio ad Hitlerum

Type of propaganda, typically goes something like "Hitler supported X, therefore X must be bad"

A lazy way of logic

"You know who else had Anti-Smoking laws? Hmm, oh who was it... oh yeah, HITLER!"
- Character on King of Hill, showing Reductio ad Hitlerum

by Metal6head January 13, 2008

Awksidation Reduction

Any process by which steps are taken to mitigate the awkwardness of a situation.

Sulty: "That was mad awks; they think I'm conservative but they saw me giving my hot manager a ride to the train."
Cool Guy: "Instead of ignoring them and making it more awks, you could have tried an Awksidation Reduction and explained that she was your manager."
Sulty: "You're right. Now they think I'm really liberal."

by hashash007 August 22, 2009

Reductio ad BigBirdum

That's what happens every time there's a discussion about defunding PBS. It always quickly heads to "What about Sesame Street and Big Bird? The children!"

"Here we go. Linda started talking about defunding PBS. I give it five minutes until we get to reductio ad BigBirdum."

by nwsltr March 21, 2017

Redacto

Text in a sensitive document which has been censored by covering it with black ink to make it illegible.

"Hold that $50,000 travel expense check up to the light and make sure you can't see 'Hookers and Blow' in the memo through the redacto."

by leftiger March 12, 2019