A portmanteau of "Weimar" and "Amerika". Used to describe the perceived similarities between the pre-World War 2 Weimar republic of Germany and the United States of today. These similarities may be the loss of social cohesion and moral values, a rise in crime, inequality, and a general alienation from the current state of affairs. These factors of instability led to the collapse of the Weimar republic and this is similarly implied by the use of the term Weimerika to be a possibility in the United States.
"A humiliating loss in war, rampant inflation, geriatric plutocrats running the show. Sometimes it really feels like we're living in Weimerika."
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”