Politically Isolated

Alienated from the current political atmosphere or from one's previous political affiliations, and struggling to identify with any political party or ideology. Another word for "politically homeless" that does not appropriate a word corresponding to a marginalized group of people. Not to be confused with centrism.

I used to support the Republican Party but after Trump, I became politically isolated.

by Shugunou July 8, 2023

West's Theory Of Isolated Economic Decimation

1) The jobs that AI (the latest generation of computing technology) will largely be isolated to many of the same jobs the previous generation of computers created, facilitated or enabled, and the technology will allow the workers left in a given job to do the work of 10, decimating the demand for any specific set of skills under the previous technical paradigm. The upshot is that - for a time - jobs which are not dependent on computers (e.g. carpenters, police, paramedics, doctors, refuse workers, power linesmen) will be less impacted by the rollout of ML and AI. And while, say, AI may beget only 10% of the previous need for architects using computers to draft, there will remain a need for program managers, prompt engineers, developers, mathematicians and system engineers needed to centrally manage AI and ML systems. 2) Eventually technology will advance the point that corporations push to have androids perform the remaining jobs that only humans could perform (e.g. carpenters, police, paramedics, doctors, refuse workers, power linesmen)and regions will need to have that debate on whether technology and commerce are the more important that human-centricity and a moralized human populace. Put forth by marketer, Zackery West (FlashPointLabs) on February 8th, 2024.

"I'm a mailman, so, according to West's Theory Of Isolated Economic Decimation, my job delivering mail should be fine as the Postal Service grows more efficient at correctly finding addresses to route dead letters to, and scheduling delivery drivers."

by Zack West February 18, 2024

Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy)

A fallacy that isolates the deaths attributed to communist regimes from their historical context, treating them as if they occurred in a vacuum rather than amid civil war, foreign intervention, industrialization, and the collapse of old orders. The fallacy presents communist atrocities as sui generis, uniquely evil, while ignoring that comparable or greater suffering occurred under colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism—often at the same times, in the same places, by the same actors. Isolating deprivation allows the fallacy-user to condemn one system while absolving others, to treat communism as uniquely murderous while forgetting the millions killed by Western powers. It's history as selective memory, atrocity as political weapon.

Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy) Example: "He listed the deaths under Mao without mentioning that they occurred during a brutal civil war, after decades of foreign occupation, amid the most rapid industrialization in history. The Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation had stripped away all context, leaving only numbers—numbers that could be used to condemn, never to understand. His listeners were left with horror without history, which is exactly what he wanted."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Fallacy of Isolated Grievance

A fallacy that treats a grievance as if it existed in isolation from its context, from related grievances, from historical patterns. The fallacy presents a single incident as if it were the whole story, or dismisses a pattern by focusing on a single counterexample. It's the logic of "one minority succeeded, so discrimination doesn't exist," of "one bad experience doesn't prove systemic racism." The Fallacy of Isolated Grievance allows its user to dismiss systemic problems by pointing to exceptions, to deny patterns by focusing on particulars. It's the favorite fallacy of those who don't want to see the forest for the trees, because the forest would require action.

Example: "She presented decades of data showing housing discrimination. He responded with the Fallacy of Isolated Grievance: 'But my neighbor is Black and he owns his house. Checkmate.' One data point, isolated from the pattern, used to dismiss the whole. The data didn't matter; the exception was all he needed. The fallacy had done its work: making the systemic invisible."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Fallacy of Isolated Privation

A fallacy where someone takes a single isolated instance of harm, suffering, or failure and uses it to condemn an entire system, practice, or idea. Unlike Absolute Privation (which focuses on the worst historical examples), Isolated Privation grabs one anecdote—one medical error, one plane crash, one bad teacher—and treats it as representative of the whole. "One patient died from this treatment, therefore the treatment is worthless." "One plane crashed, therefore air travel is unsafe." "One priest abused a child, therefore the entire institution is evil." The isolated case may be real, but using it to condemn the whole ignores base rates, statistical reasoning, and the difference between exceptions and rules.

"My aunt tried acupuncture once and didn't feel better. Now she says 'Acupuncture is complete fraud' every time it's mentioned. That's Fallacy of Isolated Privation—one anecdote, zero context, infinite certainty. The plural of anecdote is not data, Karen."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Broke, Lonely, Isolated Men

You are doing that to them deliberately. It isn't their parents rasing them a certain way you are DELIBERATELY OSTRACIZING AND SABOTAGING (AND LIKELY ROBBING) MEN WHO WON'T BE IN YOU CAMP. You are DEFLECTING TO PARENTING BECAUSE YOU THINK YOUR INCEST CULT IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL THE WORLDS PROBLEMS AND IT IS NOT.

Hym "YOU'RE DOING THAT DELIBERATELY. YOU'RE MANUFACTURING THE BROKE, LONELY, ISOLATED MEN DELIBERATELY. AND THEN PIECE OF SHIT YOUTUBERS BLOVIATE ABOUT IT LIKE IT'S A MYSTERY. YOU'RE TAKING MY SHIT. YOU REFUSING TO ASSOCIATE WITH ME. THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO THE 'LONELY, BROKE, MEN' THEY ARE BROKE BECAUSE YOU NEED THEM TO BE BROKE. BECAUSE IF I'M NOT BROKE I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN YOU USES PATHETIC GOMERS WHO DESERVE NO RESPECT. THAT'S WHY THEY ARE BROKE. WHY ARE THEY ISOLATED? BECAUSE ONLY 2 TYPES OF PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED IN PUBLIC. FAGGOT ASS MATT. EVERYONE HE KNOWS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS HIM. FAGGOT ASS OTHER MATT. EVERYONE HE KNOWS IS IN AN INCEST CULT. YOU'RE BOTH TRASH. YOU BOTH DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR KIDS MURDERED. THE ONLY SOLUTION... IS FOR YOU TO KILL YOURSELF GAYVE. YOU, YOUR KIDS, YOUR SPOUSE. AND ANYONE WHO EVEN VAGUELY RESEMBLES YOU NEEDS TO DO THE SAME!"

by Hym Iam July 30, 2024

Isolate

To isolate means to contain or withhold within a certain boundary. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out. Whatever is being isolated is protected from most means of harm - Yes, I said "most", because isolation doesn't always have its benefits. Believe me, I know.

We'll isolate this hot liquid in the thermos, it won't spill and it won't lose heat!

by TheSpectacularOne December 1, 2009