Similar to but broader than the "Delusion Card," this is the accusation that someone's entire perception of reality is broken due to a psychotic break, often because they endorse a belief system the accuser finds utterly incomprehensible or dangerous. It's not just that they have one wrong idea, but that their entire cognitive framework is detached from consensus reality. This shuts down conversation by declaring the speaker insane.
Example: Someone arguing that we live in a simulation might be met with, "You've officially pulled the psychosis card. Touch grass. Talk to a real person." It labels a philosophical or speculative stance as evidence of a severe mental health crisis, barring any further discussion.
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Get the Psychosis Card mug.An egregiously ableist slur repurposed as a rhetorical weapon to dismiss an argument by claiming its proponent must have a cognitive or intellectual disability. It suggests the argument is so stupid, poorly constructed, or obvious that only a person with severely diminished mental capacity could make it. This is among the most offensive and juvenile tactics, used to inflict maximum insult while offering zero counter-argument.
Example: If someone misinterprets a basic statistic in a debate, a hostile opponent might respond, "Wow, just when I thought your argument couldn't get dumber, you whip out the retardation card." This substitutes a vile insult for any attempt to correct the misinterpretation, aiming purely to humiliate and end the exchange.
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Get the Retardation Card mug.A blunt, offensive directive implying that someone's opinions or online behavior are so irrational, aggressive, or erratic that they must be off their prescribed psychiatric medication. It reduces all disagreement or passion to a chemical imbalance, suggesting the solution isn't discourse but pharmaceuticals. It's a particularly nasty form of gaslighting that tells a person their very mode of engagement is a medical emergency.
Take Meds Card Example: During a late-night, intense political thread, User A makes a valid but passionately worded point. User B, wanting to dismiss them, replies: "Your timeline is unhinged. Seriously, go take your meds card and chill." This reframes healthy engagement as a manic episode requiring sedation.
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Get the Take Meds Card mug.The accusation that someone's argument is a meaningless jumble of complex or academic-sounding words strung together to sound profound while deliberately conveying no coherent position. It suggests the speaker is using jargon as a smokescreen to hide a lack of substance, confuse the audience, or appear intelligent without actually making a defensible point. Playing this card is a way to dismiss verbose or theoretically dense arguments by claiming they are semantically null—linguistic garbage posing as insight.
Example: In a philosophy debate, someone says, "The ontological precarity of the subjective experience is merely a dialectical shadow of the hegemonically constructed phenomenological field." A critic might reply, "Stop dealing the word salad card. Say that in English or admit you have no actual point." This accuses the speaker of hiding behind complexity instead of communicating clearly.
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Get the Word Salad Card mug.The claim that someone is spewing out a torrent of unfiltered, disorganized, and often emotionally charged text or speech without any coherent structure, fact-checking, or logical progression. Unlike the calculated obfuscation of "word salad," "word vomit" implies a loss of control—an impulsive, messy outpouring of thoughts that is exhausting to parse and futile to engage with. It's used to dismiss rants or overly long posts by framing them as an unpleasant, involuntary cognitive eruption.
Example: After a user posts twelve rapid-fire, paragraph-long comments full of typos, tangents, and raw anger, another user might say, "Clean up this word vomit card you just played and come back with a single, coherent sentence. I'm not sifting through this emotional landfill." It pathologizes the expression as a messy outburst rather than an argument.
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Get the Word Vomit Card mug.A derisive, modern evolution of the "touch grass" insult, accusing someone of being so terminally online, ideologically captured, or immersed in niche digital subcultures that their perspective has become completely disconnected from the practical realities and social norms of the offline, physical world. It suggests their arguments are only valid within a specific online echo chamber and evaporate upon contact with mainstream, tangible life.
Take Grass Card Example: In a debate about real-world economics, someone cites a theory popular only in a fringe online forum. The reply: "Your entire worldview is filtered through that subreddit. Seriously, it's time to take the grass card—go outside, talk to a neighbor, get a job. Your argument doesn't survive the sunlight." It invalidates the point by attacking the perceived digital insularity of the speaker.
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Get the Take Grass Card mug.The ultimate dismissal, alleging that someone's foundational premises are so at odds with empirically verifiable facts or consensus reality that productive debate is impossible. This isn't just disagreement; it's the claim that the person has departed from shared reality itself, often into conspiracy, extreme ideology, or solipsism. It declares the argument not merely wrong, but unmoored from the objective world, making rational discourse pointless.
Example: Someone arguing that all world governments are secretly run by lizard people will be met with, "I can't debate someone who's playing the detached from reality card this hard. You're not operating from the same set of facts as the rest of the planet." It draws a boundary between debatable opinion and non-negotiable reality, placing the opponent outside that boundary.
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