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Apologies to Bandito if he didn't use that word in any of his posts.
I'm as dumb as the floor. As such, I thought a WORDS thread might appeal to wordsmiths, the curious and dummies like me.
holmes435 wrote:I used it and it's a term they do call themselves. This is going to take a bit of your time to dig into some of this Trump related subculture, but it's well worth it and is extremely interesting stuff to observe.
Bandito posted a link to MagaPill, which is a play on "The Red Pill". Originally from the matrix scene where Morpheus offers Neo a red pill to learn the truth, or a blue pill to go back to sleep.
An online community formed a number of years ago under that title, "The Red Pill" regarding the roles of men and women in society. Here is a story about it from 2013 that explains it a lot better than I could - https://www.businessinsider.com/the-red ... dit-2013-8 - since then the community has been ratcheted up to 11.
Incels are heavily involved in The Red Pill community and looking for ways to break their "involuntary celibacy". Here is one post that is eye opening - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/com ... o_you_can/
Here is a glossary of terms surrounding the subculture: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Manosphere_glossary
Red Pillers are also heavily into Trump, unsurprisingly. They're all loosely tied together, but the term itself has also crossed over into the mainstream and applies to a number of different truths.
Here are a few posts and articles surrounding The Red Pill, regarding society, women, political truths or all of the above.
How I took the red pill and got on the Trump train - Medium.com
Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking 'the red pill' - Fox News
“HE’S NEVER BEEN HAPPIER”: INSIDE THE RED-PILLING OF KANYE WEST - Vanity Fair
It’s great the Red Pill candidate won. His presence alone will make society more Red Pill over the next 4 to 8 years. - Reddit TheRedPill Post
Trump and the Red Pill - Ms. Magazine
John Stossel: Why so many are 'taking the red pill' (and discovering the truth about the mainstream media) - Fox News
How to Defend Yourself Like Trump: 11 Pro Strategies - Reddit TheRedPill Post
Enthralling book. Fact is indeed stranger than fiction.dislaxxic wrote:GREAT thread...thanks, Murf!
Speaking of the OED, i read a fascinated tale over summer holiday about the writing - the assembly really - of the Oxford English Dictionary called The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester.
The project took nearly 100 years to complete and involved hundreds of citizen volunteer wordsmiths that collected samples of words and submitted them to the leader of the project and his team (the Professor). As it turns out, one of the most prolific volunteers was a convicted murderer who lived all the while in an asylum in the English countryside. The Professor took submissions from the man for decades before actually meeting him in his rooms, behind tall walls and locked gates.
Great read...a real page turner...well, at least for us fans of etymology.![]()
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Indeed I did. Stormy Daniel's, the woman that did/did not have a "liaison" with the SEWOAM, describes Trump's "Dingle Hoffer James" as looking like a mushroom from Mario Kart.holmes435 wrote:Only thing I know of is a series of video games starting with the Super Nintento - they're still making new versions today. Did you hear it in another context?wahoomurf wrote:What the hell is a MARIO KART?
Ah, yeah. I think she said his mini-Trump looked like Toad. This is Toad:wahoomurf wrote:Indeed I did. Stormy Daniel's, the woman that did/did not have a "liaison" with the SEWOAM, describes Trump's "Dingle Hoffer James" as looking like a mushroom from Mario Kart.