Words like:
Bazinga:
Slop:
Treat:
Adults in the room doing hard decisions:
New additions: wine cave warriors. (no need to define)
Post hog
PMC Karens (hononary mention)
Possible additions: ‘homo economicus’
Wtf is with all of this?
Edit: Ok, so from what I’ve gathered, you guys are basically a million Progressive podcasts’ communities hiding under a trenchcoat that you call a Lemmy community…
homo economicus
“Adults in the room” is an old phrase, but I think the tide began to turn from self-congratulatory to derisive when Yanis Varoufakis made it the title of his book about the Troika condemning Greece to austerity. It’s popular here because we have a unified loathing for West Wing-style liberalism that congratulates itself for making “tough choices” that inevitably and exclusively harm the working class.
A week ago I thought the Hexbear dialect was fully incomprehensible
This week I am saying “brainworms” and “treats must flow” out loud
Please help.
Bazinga is Sheldon’s catchphrase in The Big Bang Theory–it’s emblematic of the “I fucking love science” crowd who value dubious technological achievements over actual political solutions
Slop: don’t know the history of this one, but it fits with the pig theme
Treat: also not sure about the origin, but (as someone who has listened to like two episodes of Chapo Trap House) this feels very Matt Christman, but it could also be some Twitter thing which I am blissfully unaware of
Adults in the room doing hard decisions: this isn’t a Hexbear coinage, but something liberals have actually said without a hint of irony (just search the Washington Post or the New York Times and you’ll surface countless articles about supposed “adults in the room” like Mattis or Tillerson). It was used a lot to describe people in Trump’s administration who the media deemed worthy stewards of empire who would steer the administration in the right direction, and is also used to describe the “mature” civil Democrats in contrast to the “childish” unseemly GOP.
As a blessedly-untarnished-by-twitter commie, I always figured “treats” was a play into pillorying the settler beneficiaries-of-empire as dogs. “Good dog gets its treats” and that.
I always thought it was more referring to bread and circuses, something to keep the population placated. I really like your interpretation too though.
Well, there are those whose social democracies benefit from neo-colonial exploitation et those who liver on settler land and probably genocided the rest of the other indigenous nations…
Then there are those expats who help command a field army of Global South people, especially those of privilege, to advocate for their own “freedoms” in rival Global South countries, while cracking down on dissent when in power, as approved and even aided by the local landholders, industrialist capitalists, and Euro-American financiers…
I always just interpreted it as an anti-materlialistic phrase to mock how western libs can only really understand the world through how many things they can purchase for cheap. “Oh you want to fix climate change but I’d have to have a car I like slightly less? That’s taking my treats away and we don’t do that” I think these all fit in one theme though and like them all
A bit of in-group slang is extremely normal for communities. The proliferation of ideograms here is way more interesting
Ok Big Cat Chungus… seriously, though I should actually talk about these emojis, perse…
seriously, though I should actually talk about these emojis
Don’t come for our emojis. The consequences are dire.
I am not 100% on it but I’m pretty sure “Treat” discourse comes from Matt Christman, Slop originally started as the “Slop in my trough, my snout descends” bit from r/CTH referring to when a new podcast episode dropped (that I’m pretty sure has it’s roots in being called little piggies by Will and Amber at one point), and you got plenty of answers for Bazinga/AitR.
treat discourse was all over left twitter though? it’s bigger so I just assumed it came from there. maybe it did spread from CTH, idk.
