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...whether it was by a cult, by propaganda, by an algorithm, etc...

And did the person ever recover from it?

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (10 children)

"Well, that's just how it is"

Person attempting to justify an injustice they also suffer, without even a thought about whether it being "how it is" might actually be connected to all the people saying dumb stuff like "Well, that's just how it is."

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I learned recently that there's a word for this, which is "thought-terminating cliche"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is one of the few acceptable ones IMO. Sometimes, something is bullshit, you know it's bullshit, everyone else knows it's bullshit, but you have no ability to fix or avoid said bullshit, so... it is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Fuckin way she goes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

And it ain't what it ain't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And now you're going to notice them all over the internet.

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