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If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu. 

If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu — the American political reality that proves REPRESENTATION MATTERS!!!!

Another version of this saying is “If you don’t have a seat at the table; then you are on the menu.” Meaning: there are a lot of people who are going to get rights, privileges, and tax cuts at the expense of front line workers and people living on the margins.

This is most easily seen in areas where both gerrymandering and redistricting are used to disenfranchise minority voters.

Another area where this is seen is in the backlash against a woman’s right to choose. As of September 9th 2023, the young women coming of age in my family have fewer reproductive and healthcare options than did the generation that crossed into womanhood ahead of them.

Representation Matters and if you don’t have a seat at the table you are on the menu; indeed, if you don’t have a seat at the table you ARE the menu!
Representation matters: If you don’t have a seat at the table; you ARE the menu.
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Seattle University 

Seattle University is a small, quaint, Jesuit college located in a shithole ghetto section of Seattle and attended by students who couldn't make the bar for University of Washington but wanted to hang out in Seattle's depressing weather anyway because they mistakenly thought Seattle would be a great place to live.
Dude, I heard you didn't make it into UW.

Yeah but I can still hang with you in Seattle's depressing fucking weather 'cause Seattle University let me in. Hopefully that rain doesn't drive us to suicide.
Seattle University by Smack Baby September 14, 2011
Seattle Tacoma International Airport
I arrive in to SeaTac at 6pm.
SeaTac by Matt Weller February 5, 2007

If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu. 

If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu. — A statement used in minority communities to reflect the reality that representation matters.
Vote for people who represent you and represent your interest because: If you don't have a seat at the table; you are on the menu.

Two-seater

A person, usually female, with an arse so enormous it takes up two seats on a bus or other public transport. The sight of this apparition Is so remarkable that owner ceases to be a person and become just a mobile arse. The next stage usually results in the disbelieving mind asking a number of questions such as “Is it an elephant in disguise?” “How did it get into those jeans?” “Does it have its own Facebook page?” “Are the seats going to collapse?” This is usually followed by wondering “If it escaped would it attack people and ravage the countryside?” This in turn is followed by the heartfelt prayer, “Please don’t let it fart!”
I was on the bus yesterday and this enormous arse got on, talk about a two-seater, if there’d been a third seat it would have had that as well.
Two-seater by AKACroatalin May 16, 2015

Seattle Kraken 

The newest franchise in the NHL - (2020). The Kraken are part of the Western Conferences’ Pacific Division, and begin play in the 2021-2022 season. Based in Seattle, Washington, the Kraken will play their home games at Climate Pledge Arena.
Person 1: “Did you hear the name of the new NHL team in Seattle?”

Person 2: “They are going to be called ‘The Seattle Kraken‘.”
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Me: Poggers!
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
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Surf Dracula Syndrome 

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.

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Northstarring

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 flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
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Plate of Brown 

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.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
Plate of Brown by Cheddar Craigson September 18, 2020
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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