Combination of Mid and Maelstrom. An avalanche or overwhelming amount of mediocre content, food, etc.
by Vrillionaire June 15, 2022
Get the Midstrom mug.And we wouldn't even be talking about it if Hamas hadn't raped murdered their way into the news-cycle.
Hym "Isn't it a little sad to you that they've been mistreated for decades and you spent those decades thinking your women and children wouldn't get raped and murdered over it and now... BAM! That delusion has been ripped away from you in one fell swoop? And ONLY NOW is it the impetus for change. Like... Hamas has been firing missiles into Israel for years... You DIDN'T NEED TO ERADICATE HAMAS... Until now... Because you thought your women and children wouldn't get raped and killed over it and they DID have that happen to them. Isn't it sad? And still the lesson hasn't been learned. Because you can kill Hamas all you want but it isn't going to do anything because you aren't fighting THEM you're fighting THEM IN ABSTRACTION. The PERPETUAL 'THEM.' And so long as the conditions that created the impetus for violence exist the rape and child murder isn't ABSENT in you society but, rather, IMPENDING. And you're going to do the same thing you do with school shootings and hyper-fixate on solving the 1st order problem (The physical ability for somone to do what they did) rather than addressing the actual cause. And beyond that, you're not actually even capable of engaging with the true cause. You're going to deflect to some amorphous 'craziness' or some ethereal 'evil' as the cause and you will do nothing to prevent things like happening in the future because you refuse to change the present in such a way that it will prevent things like this from being a desired outcome."
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Get the Mainstream Media mug.by Goodygoober2004 June 15, 2024
Get the mcstreamy mug.The erroneous assumption that ideas, aesthetics, or opinions are inherently superior, correct, or more "authentic" simply because they are amplified by or aligned with dominant cultural institutions (corporate news, major studios, popular influencers). It conflates prevalence with validity, market share with truth. Conversely, it can also manifest as the inverse snobbery of automatically rejecting anything mainstream, but the core fallacy is granting automatic epistemic authority based solely on broadcast reach.
Example: "You think that indie theory holds water? Please. It's not on CNN or the NYT Bestseller list. If it was really important, it'd be everywhere—that's just the Mainstream Media Fallacy in reverse." This implies truth is democratically determined by airtime and that marginality, in either direction, is a marker of falsehood.
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Get the Mainstream Media Fallacy mug.The unexamined tendency to believe that ideas, aesthetics, or sources of information are more valid, credible, or important simply because they are amplified by dominant cultural institutions (corporate media, major publishers, blockbuster studios, top-charting algorithms). It conflates prevalence with quality and popularity with truth. This bias creates a feedback loop where mainstream ideas get more attention because they are mainstream, making alternative perspectives seem fringe by definition, not by merit.
Example: Dismissing a groundbreaking scientific paper because it was published in a specialized journal and not on the cover of Nature or Science is Mainstream Bias. It assumes that the gatekeepers of prestige are infallible arbiters of significance, potentially missing revolutionary work that hasn't yet been blessed by the establishment.
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Get the Mainstream Bias mug.The assumption that ideas circulated by mainstream institutions—major media outlets, established publishers, popular platforms—represent a neutral middle ground between fringe extremes. The Mainstream Neutralist treats the Overton Window as if it were reality itself, rather than a socially constructed range of acceptable debate. They forget that today's mainstream was yesterday's radical fringe and will be tomorrow's obsolete relic. The mainstream isn't neutral—it's just where power has currently settled.
"I just read the centrist newspaper—they're not biased like those crazy partisan sites," she said, unaware that her "centrist" paper had an editorial board, a corporate owner, and a demographic of readers whose interests shaped every story. Mainstream Neutrality Bias: when the middle of the road is still a road, built somewhere, going somewhere.
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