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Larry Libertarian believes that workers have no rights, taxation is theft, racial discrimination should be legal, regulations that protect clean air and water should be rolled back, and everything else that a Republican believes...but he wants to legalize the marijuana, so all the 20-somethings think he's cool.
by q359 March 5, 2017
Get the Libertarian mug.Postmodernism is a philosophy that holds that there are no such things as truth, facts, or objective reality, and such concepts are oppressive tools of the white male power structure. A common postmodernist refrain is "Perception is reality". Rather than there being an objective reality that everyone is perceiving through lenses that can and do contain distortions, postmodernism teaches that reality is different for every person, and there is no such thing as a false narrative. An old expression says that "There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the cold, hard truth". Postmodernism gets rid of that third side. Everybody's worldview, right down to the mentally disturbed person screaming on the subway about the end times, is equally valid. Young-earth creationists, flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, and Q-Anon cultists are taken seriously, and have followings, because of postmodernism. Before postmodernism, these people would have been roundly dismissed as idiots, and rational minds would set the record straight.
We went from there being three news channels that admittedly told a slanted narrative, to one where there are millions of "news sources" to choose from to fit your own personal narrative. And we went from one stifling, oppressive (usually religiously-driven) set of moral standards, to NO moral standards whatsoever, and complete moral relativism. Because no answers is better than one answer, and you must NEVER tell a person that they're wrong.
We went from there being three news channels that admittedly told a slanted narrative, to one where there are millions of "news sources" to choose from to fit your own personal narrative. And we went from one stifling, oppressive (usually religiously-driven) set of moral standards, to NO moral standards whatsoever, and complete moral relativism. Because no answers is better than one answer, and you must NEVER tell a person that they're wrong.
When I was a kid I was foolishly taught that the sky was blue, but now, thanks to postmodernism, I know that the sky is whatever color a person believes it to be.
by q359 June 25, 2023
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Get the virtue signaling mug.An apologist for dictatorial regimes with atrocious records on human rights, so long as those countries are not the US. A person who thinks that because the US is flawed, and has done bad things, that that means that countries that are or have traditionally been our adversaries (generally communist countries) are actually perfectly fine places to live, and everything bad that you hear about them is a Western lie. Someone who goes beyond just being a communist or socialist, into defending some truly awful regimes, a tankie throws out the baby with the bathwater.
John thinks Stalin was awesome, says China isn't oppressing the Uyghurs, and believes that everything bad you hear about North Korea is a lie that the American media wants you to believe. John is a tankie.
by q359 March 2, 2023
Get the tankie mug.John is a libertarian. He has a ponytail, likes marijuana, and doesn't hate gay people, but otherwise, he is indistinguishable from a Republican.
by q359 October 22, 2022
Get the Libertarian mug.A completely idiotic, 100% crock-of-shit psychological movement that caters to emotionally-stunted, entitled adult children who can't do basic life errands without having an animal buddy by their side at all times, and disingenuous shitbirds who like to co-opt the language of disability to abuse loopholes in order to have pets where pets are not allowed.
What do you mean, I can't bring a fully-grown adult crocodile on an airplane? It's my emotional support animal, you're being ableist!
by q359 July 24, 2023
Get the emotional support animal mug.More specific than just an asshole, douchebag, dickhead, etc., a shitbird is someone who is extremely selfish, entitled, and narcissistic, and does ONLY what is most convenient for THEM, with absolutely no regard for how it makes other people's lives worse and fucks up the social order. They believe that ALL rules, laws, and social conventions are inherently oppressive, and rebel against all authority simply for the sake of rebelling against authority, even when said authority is 100% reasonable. The shitbird's life philosophy is "My enjoyment above all", and frequently say "You're not the boss of me/You can't tell me what to do!". They do things like drive recklessly, cut in lines, throw trash wherever they want, and whatever else they feel like, with no guilt whatsoever. They think "freedom" means "complete anarchy". Other words for shitbird are "libertine" and "sociopath". Like pigeons who shit all over a statue, the shitbird just likes to shit all over everything, and leave other, decent people to clean up their messes.
People who didn't follow mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic, because their own personal comfort took priority over not killing people in their vicinity with a deadly virus, are shitbirds.
by q359 July 24, 2023
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