A form of gaslighting where the perpetrator explains political realities to someone with direct experience or expertise, often in a condescending tone, while erasing the target’s own political agency and knowledge. Variants include Westsplaining (Westerners explaining to Global South peoples) and Zionsplaining/Israelsplaining (non‑Palestinians explaining the conflict to Palestinians). Politicalsplaining dismisses lived experience, substitutes abstract frameworks for embodied knowledge, and positions the splainer as the objective voice of reason.
Example: “A European academic explained to a Syrian refugee why the conflict in his country was ‘really about geopolitics, not suffering.’ Politicalsplaining: using theory to silence the voices of those who live the reality.”
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.