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An oxymoron.
Bub: What is a silent majority?
Loko: An oxymoron
Bub: Oh really, why?
Loko: Think about it. How can a majority be silent? Would that not also imply there is a loud minority? Not strictly speaking, but by definition, a crowd of a thousand people cannot be more silent than a few individuals. Therefore it is an oxymoron.
Bub: So what you are saying is that a silent majority is seemingly silent, but has all the traits of a majority?
Loko: Exactly. However because it's an oxymoron, it is only to be used under specific contexts such as the majority of students attending a zoom lecture that vote on polls but don't ever talk. It has also been used as a misnomer intended to magnify a population group to make it appear bigger than it really is. In the second case, it is the 'majority' part that is meant to elude, while 'silent' implies that there is another group in comparison: the supposedly "loud" group which turns out to be the true majority group.
Bub: The second use-case sounds a bit sus.
Loko: Yes, essentially it is double-speak.
Loko: An oxymoron
Bub: Oh really, why?
Loko: Think about it. How can a majority be silent? Would that not also imply there is a loud minority? Not strictly speaking, but by definition, a crowd of a thousand people cannot be more silent than a few individuals. Therefore it is an oxymoron.
Bub: So what you are saying is that a silent majority is seemingly silent, but has all the traits of a majority?
Loko: Exactly. However because it's an oxymoron, it is only to be used under specific contexts such as the majority of students attending a zoom lecture that vote on polls but don't ever talk. It has also been used as a misnomer intended to magnify a population group to make it appear bigger than it really is. In the second case, it is the 'majority' part that is meant to elude, while 'silent' implies that there is another group in comparison: the supposedly "loud" group which turns out to be the true majority group.
Bub: The second use-case sounds a bit sus.
Loko: Yes, essentially it is double-speak.
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian June 26, 2021
Get the Silent majoritymug. ๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:
RARBG is a torrenting site that was shut down by the owners on May 31, 2023.
It was hands down objectively one of the best torrenting site for movies. They had super high quality rips that you just couldn't find elsewhere (20GB+ filesize). Overall, they did many things right that other torrent sites simply lacked, such as introducing H.265 formats, listing the movie metadata on the torrent page, or a conveniently-placed section of all the latest popular movies.
The only thing that won't be missed is those rowdy discussion threads, also known as RARGB's own circlejerk. Literally 50% of the discussion in any given highly-seeded movie torrent consists of hate-filled comments or quips against women, minorities and everything they perceive as being "woke" in the movie. 45% consists of heated debates. And the remaining 5% is just people simply saying "thank you". Lol.
Moderation was also wack AF. Ive had a total of five router changes these past 5 years, and for every new IP address I've been banned from the comments for the most trivial things. And yet they just let the dozens of other toxic, distasteful commenters run amok. Either the mods have a bias or they are bad at modding.
๐ง๐;๐๐ฅ RARBG was an absolutely GOATed torrent site that is in every way a rightful successor to TPB... just minus the distasteful comments. Good site owners. Great release groups. Bad comment section and mods. Either way their torrents will be sorely missed.
RARBG is a torrenting site that was shut down by the owners on May 31, 2023.
It was hands down objectively one of the best torrenting site for movies. They had super high quality rips that you just couldn't find elsewhere (20GB+ filesize). Overall, they did many things right that other torrent sites simply lacked, such as introducing H.265 formats, listing the movie metadata on the torrent page, or a conveniently-placed section of all the latest popular movies.
The only thing that won't be missed is those rowdy discussion threads, also known as RARGB's own circlejerk. Literally 50% of the discussion in any given highly-seeded movie torrent consists of hate-filled comments or quips against women, minorities and everything they perceive as being "woke" in the movie. 45% consists of heated debates. And the remaining 5% is just people simply saying "thank you". Lol.
Moderation was also wack AF. Ive had a total of five router changes these past 5 years, and for every new IP address I've been banned from the comments for the most trivial things. And yet they just let the dozens of other toxic, distasteful commenters run amok. Either the mods have a bias or they are bad at modding.
๐ง๐;๐๐ฅ RARBG was an absolutely GOATed torrent site that is in every way a rightful successor to TPB... just minus the distasteful comments. Good site owners. Great release groups. Bad comment section and mods. Either way their torrents will be sorely missed.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ผ๐ป rarbg.to, ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ป:
"Hello guys,
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all.
Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES.
Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare.
Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it.
We are sorry :(
Bye"
"Hello guys,
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all.
Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES.
Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare.
Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it.
We are sorry :(
Bye"
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian June 4, 2023
Get the RARBGmug. C'mon guys it's not that bad! Learning the chemical composition of organic molecules is interesting. I mean, who wouldn't want to draw the structural formula of a molecule given its IUPAC name?? Okay maybe i'm just a nerd but still...
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian January 21, 2022
Get the Organic Chemistrymug. Cougar on the subway: "Ara ara!"
Upon hearing that phrase, all the male sophomores sitting beside her suddenly began to jizz uncontrollably in their pants.
Upon hearing that phrase, all the male sophomores sitting beside her suddenly began to jizz uncontrollably in their pants.
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian December 6, 2022
Get the Ara Aramug. A rather mawkish and fawning way of greeting someone, especially on the internet. Because two hi's obviously make you sound more likeable...
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian March 27, 2024
Get the hihimug. Interestingly enough, Char has many meanings and can refer to many things:
1) To burn something until it's partially or completely black
2) A charwoman (woman employed to clean houses or offices); to work as a charwoman
3) Tea (eh?)
4) Another word for "roast" and burn" after spitting out a sick comeback
5) A freshwater or marine fish like the trout, of northern countries. It is valued as a food and game fish.
6) Short form for character, especially with regards to video game characters or computer programming
7) Char siu, a kind of Chinese BBQ pork
8) Nickname for Charlotte
9) Chimchar!
1) To burn something until it's partially or completely black
2) A charwoman (woman employed to clean houses or offices); to work as a charwoman
3) Tea (eh?)
4) Another word for "roast" and burn" after spitting out a sick comeback
5) A freshwater or marine fish like the trout, of northern countries. It is valued as a food and game fish.
6) Short form for character, especially with regards to video game characters or computer programming
7) Char siu, a kind of Chinese BBQ pork
8) Nickname for Charlotte
9) Chimchar!
1) Their bodies were badly charred in the fire
2) She'd had to char and work in a grocery store to put herself through university
3) I'll have a cup of char with that
4) Ohhhhhh get charred son
5) Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char
6) A Unicode code unit is a 16-bit char value; I switched my minecraft char to look like a
7) I was hungry so I decided to visit Chinatown and bought some Char siu buns to eat
8) Hey let's go get some Sushi Char, whaddya think?
9) Chimchar, use flamethrower!
2) She'd had to char and work in a grocery store to put herself through university
3) I'll have a cup of char with that
4) Ohhhhhh get charred son
5) Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char
6) A Unicode code unit is a 16-bit char value; I switched my minecraft char to look like a
7) I was hungry so I decided to visit Chinatown and bought some Char siu buns to eat
8) Hey let's go get some Sushi Char, whaddya think?
9) Chimchar, use flamethrower!
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian September 16, 2020
Get the Charmug. Person 1: Hey bud, can you do me a favor?
Person 2: What's that?
Person 1: Go awf yourself. Thanks! ^-^
Person 2: What's that?
Person 1: Go awf yourself. Thanks! ^-^
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian February 21, 2020
Get the go awfmug.