• @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      51 year ago

      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.

      • @iiGxC@slrpnk.net
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        11 year 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

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      41 year ago

      “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.

      • Boozilla
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        21 year ago

        Orange you glad he’s going to prison.

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