mlhiss's definitions

bed-wetter

Someone who openly doubts and/or worries excessively about a political strategy and related outcome. Someone who does not have the guts to tackle controversial political issues whose outcome is difficult to address.

When you come up with a buzz words like Defunding Police to convey a concept like rethinking the police as the panacea for all social problems there will be a lot of politicians will become a bed-wetter.

by mlhiss June 9, 2020

C-19

Coronavirus var. COVID-19

One's auto-response to a person with a C-19 sneeze, is becoming like an auto-reaction to a gun shot.

by mlhiss April 6, 2020

cultural erasure

When the dominant culture forces a minority to adopt to a dominant culture (revisionist history, customs, mannerisms, traditions, pedagogy, attire, names, language, history, religion, etc). The dominant forces in the culture may also force the minority into an economic system in which all but a few in a minority group is exploited and for which the the dominant leaders have inherent disadvantages.

The authorities assured us that cultural erasure was a myth and that the minorities cultural practice of living in tight close knit compounds only coincidentally looked like forced labor work camps because of the security towers The authorities noted that these primitive people preferred being assimilated in the dominant culture because it gave them unlimited opportunities to work, and an extreme sense of security.

by mlhiss July 29, 2020

BANANA

An acronym for: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.

Or: alternatively and acronym for: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone).
A common expression used by developers to mock activists opposing land development, by labeling them as extremists who cannot be satisfied.

The developer had paid off the politicians and so was feeling secure in the outcome of the vote. However, after mockingly eating the 5th BANANA, to mock the hundreds of protests regarding the proposed landfill in the bay, the Commission finally could not withstand the cries of protest and voted the developer's proposal down.

by mlhiss December 11, 2019

Voter Digression

A political strategy to get voters to lose focus on the most appropriate and potentially successful candidate that is most likely to achieve their political goals. and represent them in a political body. Typically voter digression is used in a general election where the strategy is to get the voter to vote for a candidate that will siphon off votes or create voter apathy. The strategist can throw an election even from a popular candidate by taking a few votes away from the most popular candidate or one which can win a plurality. In a presidential election this is even easier since we don't elect the president directly. So a politician can win the national vote by millions but lose a few states if enough votes are siphoned off and they have less votes than the main opposing candidate, which may have radically different political goals. Sadly if the individual voter digresses to a lessor candidate (that may get less than 1% of the vote) because they want their vote to count, but in the process deny the most popular candidate and the one closest to their values the ability to win, and in the process deny the majority of voters their right to be represented.

While many rightly complain about voter suppression, the loss of an election may be more attributed to voter digression, in the form of voter abstinence or the siphoning off of votes by fringe candidates. Voters often do not realize they are in effect denying those most closely aligned with their political views the right to vote, since voting is a collective process that can only be won by a majority or plurality.

by mlhiss March 13, 2020

snowsquall

A sudden occurring moderately heavy snowfall pushed by strong, swift and gusty surface winds in a localized area which may or may not have significant snow accumulations.

It is also called a snow squall

Being a weather nerd, he planned his dates so he would be trapped in a snowsquall. Only the stupidest of people would fall for a date where they could easily be trapped in a well-publicized and highly anticipated blizzard.

by mlhiss December 19, 2019

tailored trash

White collar workers with many of the same characteristics of trailer trash, but which take it to a higher level of cultural depravity. Developers who demand perverse subsidies for creating urban sprawl, too big to fail and jail bankers who demand bonuses when they take down whole economies, flamboyant and racist professional sports team owners who feels entitled to publically funded grandiose stadiums.

The tailored trash claimed to be self made millionaire, but instead was on public welfare in the form perverse public subsidies, and entitlements to public infrastructure for developments that consumed nature and spit out urban sprawl.

by mlhiss September 30, 2014