For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨
Anyone who uses ‘woke’ unironically
Guys who refer to women as “females”
ninja edit - I see I’m late to this party
Grown men getting extremely worked up about cartoons or woman in videogames.
For me it’s the term “that’s what’s wrong with society” and variations of it. There are a LOT of things wrong with society, and different countries, cities and regions have totally different problems. If you boil all these problems down to one thing, it’s probably because you’re obsessed with that one thing, not because it’s actually caused all these other problems.
I think it’s possible to use such an expression as shorthand for that one specific issue being emblematic of the kind of people/thoughts/values/etc responsible for more of society’s ills at large without literally meaning that one thing is the only thing that is wrong. It really depends on the context and the person using it, I guess.
“I hate women and blame them for all of my issues in life”
supporting ‘the troops’ in pretty much any context
“How come Liberals…”
My immediate thought is “Here we go…”
It’s not really a phrase but anytime someone half quotes something and responds like the 2nd half of the quote doesn’t exist.
“It’s just a few bad apples” is the big one for me. The full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”, because rotting apples release gasses that quickly cause other apples to rot as well. So if you have a few bad apples in a bunch, you’ll very quickly have a bunch of bad apples.
The phrase is usually used to defend bad cops, and the irony is always lost on them when you point out the full saying. Because even the good cops uphold “circle the wagons” systems and “we’ve investigated ourselves and determined we did nothing wrong” policies that protect bad cops… Meaning a few bad cops will very quickly rot the “good” ones.
The one that irritates me is “the customer is always right…” How people can simply forget the rest baffles me.
Yeah, few bad apples is one of the sayings that people use completely backwards, the other ones is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which people abbreviate to “blood is thicker than water” to mean the exact opposite.
It especially irks me when the use it to infer the opposite of the quotes original meaning.
This question qualifies
“Have a blessed day”
Haha boomer conservatives love this one
“Say what you will. But only Donald Tr*mp has a plan to make America better!”
Self-identified centrists are always well to the right of the actual center
Centrism is an ill-defined concept that loses meaning outside the US
What a Americanocentric thing to say. What do you call centralism outside the US? I’m the middle?
Centrism as it exists in its colloquial form often ends up referring to a bridge between Republican and Democrat ideas—both American parties. As the other comment said, no one two-party-systems quite like the US.
TBF nobody does the 2 party system quite as 2 party as the Americans. At first I was inclined to agree with you and disagree with OP, but the more I think about Canadian politics the less enlightened centrism I see… Just conservative doofuses who view the world through tik tok.
caring a lot about low birth rates and demographic shift (into an aging population). i have litereally never met a single person who’s reason for worring about these wasn’t just racism. when pressed enough their arguements almost always deteriorate into some variant of the nazi “great replacement” psueudoscience
I’ve always thought it was just rich people making sure they had laborers.
Low birth rates do have a great impact in the pension schemes of countries…
That problem can be mitigated with immigration. Immigrants pay taxes and are entitled to the use of fewer social services.
People that are opposed to this might be concerned about “great replacement”.
Of course, a country’s current occupants have the right to have a family of their own (though not everyone should exercise that right) and their children should be able to grow up healthy and happy. The country should not descend into the wealthy 1% that can afford children and a rotating underclass of immigrants. That’s basically Saudi Arabia.
I have seen the word chud used but the context never made it clear what it means.
It literally stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller but is used colloquially for any people considered sub-human or monstrous because of their negative/predatory attitudes toward other people.
I mean I know the name from the movied it was more its modern usage. Honestly your def difers enough from another persons that now im less sure.
I view it as the right wing equivalent of a soyjak. A derogatory name (and drawing) for someone who’s terminally online and politically obsessed.
Now see I did not know it was right wing and now I apparently know what a soyjak is even though its the first time I have seen this. Kinda funny that anyone moving in social media circles has a name for folks who are online all the time and politically obsessed and are not themselves. Its feels like one of those things in a cartoon where the clearly nerdy character is yelling nerd at a nerdier character.
You might recognise a soyjak if you see one, even if you wouldn’t know the name of them. It was based off another meme (wojaks) and took off alongside the COVID-era conspiracy theories. It’s actually interesting that you can notice how the early ones just had a couple of nerdy traits, like a Nintendo Switch, some glasses, and some facial hair, but as it became less of a meme and more of a propaganda technique, they had to become uglier and uglier to clarify that they represented the “wrong opinion”
I read that as politically obese, and I think it still fits.
I’d like a definition too, I’m an old dude and don’t get the new fancy words.
How old? Because C.H.U.D. came out forty years ago.
A chud is a vicious sub-human monster.
A movie so bad I’ve never seen the end.
well I mean some you can sus out from context and I sorta used that word intentionally because from context I used it like I did above to figure something out but I also have seen it used to mean something is suspect. chud though I have generally just seen it thrown out as some degrogatory noun which is really hard to figure out in context .
Calling them fancy is a stretch.
Get out of my lawn!!
Anyone who uses the word “elevate” seriously in a conversation not about elevators or construction.
I feel elevated by your comment.
deleted by creator
