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A way for some folks to claim that if you donate enough money, morale will get better.
The people claiming to be morale boosters were making a lot of money off the grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis, but would be quick to try and tear morale apart again if they needed more money for another grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis. The reality is nobody's morale needs a boost.
by Solid Mantis November 6, 2020
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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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sympathy anger

when a friend or acquaintance's anger rubs off on you and you become angry about the same thing
Me: I hated T.Swift when she played country music. It made me viscerally upset. She was so annoying.
Friend: Ugh I know! Every time I changed the radio station her country song was on in a different phase. I couldn't escape it. It was terrible. God, I'm pissed about it all over again!
Me: Bro, you have mad sympathy anger right now.
by caseythewordmaker February 26, 2015
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Grief tragedy sympathy industry

Cops learn that if they break down and cry to a shrink after using their weapons, they get support, and both cops and civilians that know they will be on TV know just how to break down at the right time and "express" sorrow for what they did, thinking that will make them less wrong. When was the last time you heard a cop or a civilian that shot an unarmed protestor or black guy say

"Not a day goes by that I don't feel absolutely no remorse about what I did, they got what was coming to them!" The reason you never hear that on TV is nobody wants to make what's coming for them any worse than what it is, nobody wants to intensify what is coming for them.
Something you never hear on TV's grief tragedy sympathy industry-

Armed Civilian- Yea I shot the son of a bitch, so what, who cares. Gimme the electric chair, hang me, or shut the fuck up you fucking cunt!

Judge- I will do as you wish, I will sentence you to death, you will get what you deserve without further adieu!
by The Original Agahnim November 17, 2021
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Sympathy Soda

An unopened/unused beverage (usually in a can or bottle) that was intended for drinking but gets put back in the refrigerator and swapped for a cold one later.
Before going to bed, Michael grabbed a can of cola and took it with him. When he woke up the next morning he took the sympathy soda downstairs and put it back in the fridge and went to a coffee shop.
by TheFridgeRaider September 2, 2023
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Sympathy Fatigue

When you had to sit quietly with the dog and I quiet the 4-year-old from playing, as someone “needed time alone to process and just feel sad” about something that may or may not happen.
She was worried she may be sick, but the neediness is giving me sympathy fatigue.
by SP1429 October 19, 2022
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grief tragedy sympathy hope industry

An industry that loves to tell people who their heroes are/should be.
Thanks to the grief tragedy sympathy hope industry, the aviation museum that always had a name good enough for the residents of the city that went there had to change it's name to honor a guy they were told was their hero, rather than anybody asking them who their personal heroes were. Perhaps their personal heroes were a family member or someone from closer to home than Texas, but since nobody asked them, they were forced to adopt a guy they were told was their hero as their personal hero, without any room for anyone else (since many of them thought the name of the museum was good enough as it was, without being forced to change, and it was going to get changed to a preselected name chosen by the "new guard" instead of by the residents).
by The Original Agahnim January 20, 2022
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