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Subsidiary

Fine, then, YOU be subsidiary to ME. GET OVER HERE!!!
Hym "OR... Be subsidiary to your place of employment and say the fucking pronouns. You have a responsibility to do that, apparently. And I'm glad you brought this up again because it relates to a point I wanted to make about 'cancel-culture.' Cancel-Culture on the left often relates to the idea that people shouldn't have to be subsidiary to people who discriminate (arbitrarily) on the basis of immutable characteristics. Now, I still don't believe that the system you're talking about is 'systemically racist' but it does allow for positions that relate to hiring, promotion, and attribution of resources to be occupied (indefinitely) by racists (or sexists or homophobes). So, what do you do? You're against cancelation. You're against racial bias training. You refuse to let people circumvent the hierarchy. What now? What do you do about the meritorious racist? Let me guess 'Doesn't matter as long as it's not you.' Or 'We don't know so nothing.' Or 'Live with the tension.' Right wing cancel-culture (on the otherhand) relates to depriving resources from those who promote values that are incongruent with Judeo-Christian values. Which is literally just 'Not hiring, promoting, or attributing resources arbitrarily.' So, basically just doing the thing the leftists are accusing you of doing."
Subsidiary by Hym Iam November 19, 2023
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Subsidiary

Something that amounts to nothing, In all its existance it will never mean anything in the end, something regarded as absolute trash.
"In the end it is all Subsidiary."
Or "I feel Subsidiary."
Subsidiary by Droß January 29, 2025

subsidiarity  

Subsidiarity: the concession by which the sovereign parliaments of member-countries of the EU are required to pass into law those rules, regulations etc which have already been legislated in Brussels.
Eurocrat dictator in Brussels - " the EU imperialist project is in grave danger, Senor Barosso. The Irish might vote No to the Lisbon Treaty!"

Barosso - "Don't worry Pierre, I got da boys down da Vatican hittin''em up on prime time TV with a dose of good ol' fashioned subsidiarity til dey give us a Yes."
subsidiarity by bromp May 30, 2008

subsidiarlos 

A word somebody named bunny gave me
“ Subsidiarlos”
subsidiarlos by N0 <3 September 23, 2020

Subsidiarity 

Hym "I think the word you're looking for is 'subsidiarity,' Chris. So you ARE seeing them whether I post them or not. Thats cool. I mean, I have a lot of backlog that I haven't full fleshed out yet, I mean... Are you seeing that. I have, like, dozens at a time. It was frustrating to think nobody was seeing them but I guess now I don't have to worry about it."
Subsidiarity by Hym Iam October 9, 2023

Subsidiarity 

That's not what I meant by subsidiarity.
Hym "When I said 'subsidiarity' I meant Subsidiarity is the principle of allowing the individual members of a large organization to make decisions on issues that affect them, rather than leaving those decisions to be made by the whole group. But in 'Hierarchical subsidiarity' you would have people at the top of the hierarchy making decisions for the group while simultaneously distancing themselves from the problems of the people beneath them. What Jordan Peterson means when HE says subsidiarity is What is a synonym for subsidiarity?
subservience, subservientness. in a subservient state. type of: inferiority, lower rank, lower status. He wants the too arrogant workers to be maximally humble while He and Russell and Elon (allegedly) rape their way to the top and lord over everyone beneath them. Not what I meant when I said it."
Subsidiarity by Hym Iam October 31, 2023
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Frothability 

The measure of an emotional and over zealous consumer in an upwardly charging market, also known as a bull market. It's characterized by rising asset prices, increased investor confidence, and favorable growth in the markets, bro.
The frothability was evident as over-zealous consumers eagerly engaged in bidding wars, driving property prices to unsustainable levels reminiscent of previous speculative bubbles.
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Soul digger

A man who dates women with the sole purpose of exploiting their time, energy, and labor while he sucks the joy and happiness from their lives.
"That guy's a soul digger. He'll expect you to work full time, but you'll be doing all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, and childcare while he plays video games or watches TV."
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pod person 

A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
pod person by Christopher M. May 9, 2005
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
dead drop by rubberroom July 23, 2008
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