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Cope with hope (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Lets all agree to disagree

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The phrase “thought terminating cliche” is itself a thought terminating cliche.

You slap that label on a saying, and now you don’t have to think in order to figure out what it really means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It can be a thought terminating cliche. Like most TTCs, it can be pointing at some true aspect of reality, and be used to not go deeper than that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Fake news." – used to negate the sources of an argument, often while providing alternate or misleading information to push an individual's own interpretation of a subject; popularized by politicians in the US in 2016

Oh, yeah, just "politicians". There was one in particular, but I forget which one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Orange you glad he's going to prison.

OK, probably wishful coping on my part. Fingers crossed.