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by ×××radical××× February 18, 2021

Discourse

Perpetually online losers whining over things they know little to nothing about, or are entirely fictitious.

Ryuji: "Hey ren-ren! Baldur's Gate 3 made Fire Emblem Three Houses discourse pop up on twitter again! Wanna see me write some tweets?"
Ren: "Shut up, nerd!"

by Pylot April 15, 2024

Discourse by Power (Opposite of Conspiracy Theory)

The understanding that the boundaries of acceptable discussion—what can be said, what can't, what's reasonable, what's extreme—are shaped by power operating openly, not secretly. Where conspiracy theorists imagine hidden forces manipulating discourse, Discourse by Power sees universities training journalists, foundations funding think tanks, corporations owning media, and governments defining acceptable speech—all legally, visibly, and effectively. The limits of discourse aren't imposed by shadowy cabals; they're maintained by institutions whose power is public, whose operations are legal, whose influence is the normal functioning of society.

Discourse by Power (Opposite of Conspiracy Theory) "Certain views never appear in mainstream media. Conspiracy theorists think there's a secret blacklist. Discourse by Power says: media owners have political views, advertisers have preferences, journalists have shared training. The boundaries are maintained openly, through normal operations. No secret list needed when everyone already knows what's acceptable."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Femiturd discourse

When a feminist wants to explaining something but only shit comes out of her/his mouth

Big Red was screaming her femiturd discourse in the middle of the street.

by Femimeninist June 6, 2017

The discourse

You don't actually engage in discourse Kyle.

Hym "Saying you don't want me to be a part of the discourse is like saying you don't want me to come hunt unicorns with you. You don't actually engage in any discourse. And I bring this up because I was watching Piers the other day and he had this guy on. And Piers asked what we do about the economy and the guy's response was 'What I preach is taxing billionaires. We used to tax them more and the narrative was it was the golden age of America.' And that is what I mean. You preach the thing you preach and Gayve Jewbin doesn't even engage with it. And apparently SOMEONE DOES. And why would you not? You're getting way more out of ME than you are literally any other person on the planet by, like, several orders of magnitude. I'm like Superman squeezing a lump of coal into a diamond. I'm literally doing that while I could have been saving your kids. I could have been killing them too I guess. And the FUNNY PART... Is that you were an obstacle to the former and NOT THE LATTER! You'd think it would be the other way around! Like, the problem isn't the AI creating geniuses here and MY PROBLEM is that you are an obstacle to my rights being upheld. I'm like a Katojen over here. I am literally one of the Saarebas from Dragon Age."

by Hym Iam February 26, 2025

Imposed Discourse

The forcible limitation of what can be said, thought, or discussed—through censorship, punishment, threat, or structural exclusion. Imposed Discourse doesn't just shape opinions; it shapes the very terms of debate, the questions that can be asked, the frameworks that can be used. Certain topics are forbidden. Certain questions cannot be raised. Certain frameworks are simply unavailable because anyone who used them would face consequences. Imposed Discourse is power drawing the boundaries of speech, then pretending those boundaries are natural.

"You can discuss labor conditions, sure. But if you mention unionizing, security escorts you out. That's Imposed Discourse: the boundaries of acceptable speech drawn by power, enforced by threat. You can say anything—as long as it's within the lines they drew when you weren't looking."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Manufactured Discourse

The subtle shaping of what can be said, thought, and discussed through control of language, media, education, and cultural production—without direct coercion. Manufactured Discourse doesn't forbid certain topics; it makes them unthinkable, unsayable, ridiculous. It floods the available channels with certain framings, certain vocabularies, certain assumptions, until alternatives seem naive, extreme, or crazy. People don't refrain from questioning because they're afraid; they refrain because the questions never occur to them, or occur framed as obviously wrong. Manufactured Discourse is power that doesn't need to censor because it's already shaped what anyone would want to say.

"Decades of advertising, media, and education have made 'consumers' feel like a natural identity. That's Manufactured Discourse: the language of markets applied to everything, until citizenship itself becomes customer service. No one forbade other frameworks—they were just never made available."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026