(noun) one who not-so-convincingly overstates their personal experiences, usually in contrast to another's. He or she believes their story to be convincing beyond all measure.
see also, "One Upper"
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see also, "One Upper"
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Me: "I used to love driving on the Autobahn when I was in Germany. I actually got my car up to 110 once. It scared the shit outta me."
PoserPro: "Yeah, I got my car up to 120 on the Thruway a few days ago and got a ticket. I need to go to court tomorrow."
Three days later...
Me: "So, how'd it go in court?"
Poser Pro (having forgotten his story): "Wha-??"
PoserPro: "Yeah, I got my car up to 120 on the Thruway a few days ago and got a ticket. I need to go to court tomorrow."
Three days later...
Me: "So, how'd it go in court?"
Poser Pro (having forgotten his story): "Wha-??"
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The critique that modern scientific institutions have, despite their ideals of objectivity, become entangled with political, economic, and social power structures. Science is used not just as a tool for understanding, but as an authority to legitimize policy, marginalize dissenting worldviews (labeling them "pseudoscience"), and enforce a specific, materialist ontology as the sole arbiter of reality. This problem highlights how the label "scientific" can be wielded as a cudgel to maintain hegemony, turning science from a method into a state-sanctioned religion where priests in lab coats define truth and morality, and heresy is called "misinformation." The purity of the scientific method becomes corrupted by its institutional role as the gatekeeper of official reality.
Example: "When the government dismissed traditional herbal knowledge as 'unscientific pseudoscience' to push patented pharmaceuticals from a donor's company, it wasn't defending truth—it was exhibiting the Power Problem of Science. The institution of science was being used as the enforcement arm of a corporate agenda, protecting market power, not pursuing knowledge."
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Example: "The wellness influencer's Power Problem of Pseudoscience was clear. She used phrases like 'quantum-tuned frequencies' and cited fake journals to sell detox patches, creating a parallel authority structure for her followers. She wasn't failing at science; she was successfully wielding the aesthetic of science as a marketing weapon to build a lucrative, anti-expertise empire."
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some professional posters are paid by the forum owner to bring traffic to the website. others simply post for attention.
professional posters usually works for low wages, have drinking or drug problem, frequent craigslist for male and/or female companions.
a professional poster is also a power poster.
some professional posters are paid by the forum owner to bring traffic to the website. others simply post for attention.
professional posters usually works for low wages, have drinking or drug problem, frequent craigslist for male and/or female companions.
a professional poster is also a power poster.
by picoman April 1, 2009
Get the professional poster mug.This words a mixture of preppy and poser. I use it to describe preppy people(people who wear hollister etc.)who all of a sudden start trying to be punk or goth.Their total posers is all i can say.
Theirs this girl at my school and she went from one day being all popular and wearing pink everyday, to wearing all black and trying to hang out with all the punkers. She was a total proser!!!
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