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somalification 

Abandonment and deterioration of once thriving cities and civilizations, as warlords, drug lords and warring factions tear them apart. The definition is based on the example of modern Somalia as an impoverished, refugee-abandoned African nation without a working government and ruled by anarchy.

A description of the process destroying San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Baltimore and other major blue-run cities in the US.
Person 1: Did you see the San Fran "Poop" app, this morning? Yeah, The whole Tenderloin district is shaded brown!

Person 2: The Somalification of Bagdad by the Bay; predictable. such a sad fate for a once beautiful city.
somalification by Schmerdtz August 19, 2023
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Sealification 

Ex.
Due to the the Sealification of Seals we have more blubber boots.
Ex. 2
Sealification is the recommended anhilation of baby seals in the U.S
Sealification by The Big Kitty Kat October 23, 2014

smallification

To smallify; the act or process of making something smaller.
The house design is currently undergoing smallification.
I'm working on the smallification of the ginormous file.
smallification by rulenumberthree September 24, 2009

snake-oil simplification

When someone oversimplifies a task in order to get your buy-in. This is something done typically by sales people in order to clinch a sale, or by software management in order to convince developers to assign small estimates to large and complicated tasks
That mgmt slide show was a total snake-oil simplification! When you think about it for a few minutes its clear that providing the functionality described will be a lot more complicated than just plugging component A into server B. Who agreed to the effort estimates on this anyway!?!? We're screwed man, we'll never make this date!

Soulification 

To justify ones soul purpose, the feeling of knowing what your purpose is and then being able to have it justified with tangible proof.
My purpose in life is to write music and now I have soulification because I finally have an album out.
Soulification by Soulification February 9, 2021

Logical Simplification Bias

A pervasive cognitive bias and metabias, especially rampant in social media comments and replies, where complex, multi-dimensional issues—spanning technology, science, politics, history, and society—are aggressively reduced to simplistic logical formulas that sound reasonable but actually function as conversation-stoppers. The sufferer deploys phrases like "that's not logical," "it's too easy to make conspiracy theories," or "it's hard to build" as universal solvent, dissolving any claim that exceeds their narrow frame of reference without engaging its substance. This bias typically couples with Truth Bias (assuming one's own perception captures the whole truth) and Objectivity Bias (treating one's culturally-conditioned reasoning as universal reason itself).

The logical simplifier doesn't argue against specifics—they argue against complexity itself. Presented with speculation about advanced technology, they respond with generic difficulty assertions. Confronted with political possibility, they invoke governmental messiness as if chaos precluded capability. Faced with any claim outside consensus, they deploy the "conspiracy theory" label as automatic disqualifier. The bias lies in treating these logical-sounding simplifications as sufficient responses, when they actually bypass the difficult work of engaging evidence, possibility, and the vast territory between "proven fact" and "obvious nonsense."
Example: "When someone suggested the government might have energy weapons, he didn't discuss the physics or history—his Logical Simplification Bias fired instantly: 'it's hard to build, government is messy, so not logical, it's easy to make conspiracy theories.' He'd reduced decades of classified research, unknown technological progress, and genuine historical secrecy to a sound bite that made him feel rational while learning nothing."