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This when someone utters words simply to start an argument. No one wants this. Well, some do and fuck them! Not literally.
Leo:"Hey honey. Does this shirt make me.

look fat"
Leah: "What?!? I won't fall for your

intentional letters for chaos.

again! And that shirt is mine!"
by von groovy July 17, 2024
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Intenting

Being unmotivated to grind for something in a game, thus you buy it.
Dude.. did you just see the new style that came out? No..? Well, Donyell just pulled an intent and bought it. It looks cool as fuck! Intenting is so cool.
by alisop March 11, 2024
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Intentional Ignorance Theory

A theory, inspired by Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History," proposing that ignorance is not merely the absence of knowledge but can be deliberately created, maintained, and deployed for strategic purposes—goals of power, identity, social control, mass psychology, and hegemony. Intentional Ignorance Theory argues that ignorance is often an active achievement, produced through specific practices and institutions. Modern manifestations include dismissal tactics like Sokalism, Kampfism, and Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism; biases like Objectivity Bias, Unbiased Bias, and the Fallacy Fallacy; and rhetorical strategies like Neo-Sophism and Scientistic Sophism. Historically, it appears in colonial suppression of indigenous knowledge, institutional cover-ups, and elite cultivation of public ignorance. The theory reveals that ignorance is often not something to be overcome but something actively produced—and that understanding how ignorance is made is as important as understanding how knowledge is made.
Example: "The tobacco industry spent decades cultivating Intentional Ignorance about smoking's health effects—funding contradictory research, attacking legitimate science, creating doubt where none existed. They weren't ignorant; they were making ignorance. Intentional Ignorance Theory explains how knowledge is suppressed, how doubt is manufactured, how entire populations can be kept in the dark by those who benefit from their darkness. The theory doesn't just describe ignorance; it reveals its politics."
by Dumu The Void March 8, 2026
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Intentional Precarization

The deliberate design and maintenance of economic instability as a feature of labor systems, not a bug. Intentional precarization occurs when employers, platforms, or policymakers consciously structure work to be precarious because precarity serves their interests—it disciplines workers, suppresses wages, prevents organization, and ensures maximum flexibility for capital. The gig economy's algorithmic scheduling, the just-in-time workforce, the proliferation of independent contractor status, the erosion of labor protections—these are not unfortunate side effects but intended outcomes. Intentional precarization is the open-air prison's foundation: keep workers uncertain enough to accept anything, desperate enough to never resist.
Intentional Precarization Example: "The platform could have provided stable schedules and predictable income—instead, they designed algorithmic unpredictability because it maximized their flexibility. Not accidental precarity, but Intentional Precarization, precarity as architecture."
by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026
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Intentional Enshittification

The deliberate degradation of wages, jobs, products, or services by those who control them, as a strategy for extracting maximum value from locked-in users or workers. Intentional enshittification occurs when platforms or employers consciously decide to make things worse because they can—because switching costs are high, because alternatives have been eliminated, because workers are trapped, because users are addicted. Each degradation is calculated: how much can we cut before they leave? How much can we extract before they break? The process is not accidental but engineered, not inevitable but chosen.
Intentional Enshittification Example: "The app could have maintained quality, but once workers depended on it for survival, they intentionally degraded pay and conditions—not market forces, but Intentional Enshittification, the deliberate poisoning of your own product because you own the only well."
by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026
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intentional destructive cooperation

A coordinated effort by individuals or groups within a political or diplomatic framework to deliberately undermine, sabotage, or obstruct collective goals, negotiations, or institutional functions for personal, ideological, or strategic gain. This form of collaboration while appearing as teamwork aims to erode trust, create instability, or weaken opponents through tactics such as misinformation, bad-faith negotiations, strategic non-cooperation, or bureaucratic sabotage. It is often employed to stall progress, shift blame, or manipulate public perception while maintaining plausible deniability.
The act of intentional destructive cooperation is a huge problem in society today.
by Noisy Jackets March 7, 2025
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Intentuous

An adjective describing an action, statement, or expression that is full of deep, deliberate intent — especially when layered with emotional, moral, or complex undertones. “Intentuous” goes beyond just being intentional; it captures the emotional intensity or calculated depth behind something.
Think: meaningful, loaded, and thought-through — but with a vibe.
“She didn’t say much, but the look she gave me was so intentuous I felt it for hours.”
or
“His apology wasn’t casual — it was raw, emotional, and deeply intentuous.”
by notconnor April 13, 2025
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