"let that sink in"

It sunk in when I read it and comprehended the goddamn statement. I don't need to sit quietly for a minute and let it "sink in".

Take a moment and let that sink in.

Used to see it a lot in those Reich-wing emails the deplorables regularly send out to all of us.

Others include “You won’t see this in the main stream media!” Because...?

“Interesting!”, when it is just made-up or out of context Reich-wing crap.

“PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW!” Yes. All caps. Because that, miraculously, makes it even MORE true!
But, no. Don’t ‘share’ it. Send it back via a ‘Reply-All’ pointing out it’s bullshit and the person sending it is a ‘useful idiot’.

“This is HUGE!” When it is not; just lies.

“Think they might be biased?” (On any news they don’t like or fails to fit their preconceptions of what “really” happened.

Of course: “Fake news!”

And “Hero”, so overused to where it has become meaningless.

And “Warrior”, when they aren’t anything of the kind.

The disorientation and panic we feel when we decide that life has no intrinsic meaning and that we have to create it for ourselves.

It should never mean "nuclear warfare-like threat to our very existence."

One would think that these pundits never took a philosophy course.


With you on awesome too. I'm from the "cool" generation, and "awesome" is just too gushy.

And we used to carry around copies of "The Stranger" by Camus, who had recently died in a car accident. He became iconic to us.

ICONIC! Another word to stop using for a while!

Use instead: "He became classic, legendary and emblematic for his era"

Relevant!

That was the big catchword when I was in college. "That is so relevant."

Also "authentic," as in "I am a very authentic person." LOL. VERY authentic.

It takes so little time for a cool term to become a joke, alas. I always learn the term just when it's become hackneyed.

Song for a brighter morning- With Art Garfunkel.

“So and so destroys Trump with one tweet.”

It’s a dead giveaway the person using it is in fact a moron.

Let's go back to "annihilate." It's pretty good!

IOW, the final gambit of every brain-dead internet troll who's trying to push a patently absurd concept, but wants you to do the research.

I f*****g hate the assholes who say that.

First of all, I don't need to "look it up"; anything. Certainly not anything simplistic enough to have caught the attention of these hammerheads. I read more books by the time I was twelve than most people read in a lifetime. I don't need to "look it up".

Second, the things they want me to "look up" are almost always subjective, biased screeds that favor the viewpoint of internet trolls. A favorite is the rationale for starting the Vietnam War, a hopelessly idiotic, pointless, ghoulish slaughter that people still try to defend to this day, and it's not always veterans of the war who do so, either. When the discussion turns to why we chose to bleed ourselves dry over a country on the other side of the world that was no threat to us, some fuckbrain invariably huffs "The Domino Theory! Look it up!"

I know the Domino Theory inside and out, and it doesn't change the fact that it was cobbled together by the very people who wanted the war in the first place, so of course it's going to seem like the ultimate causus belli in history.

Don't ever, ever tell me to "look it up"...

and with a sweet smile.

Absolutely on the lie that was the Domino Theory.

Had an email argument with a REAL Reich-wing nut-bag. Called him out on his bullshit and pointed out where, and then wanted me to prove it. Me!

Told him: “You’re sitting at a damn computer! Look it up, asshole!”

We HATE each other. Yes. All-caps hate.

course, ever specifying who is "saying" or the source of the "reporting". It's what idiots say instead of "I just pulled this out of my ass."

(As a side note, your posts have always marked you as a "reader" in my view.)

I think it was meant as one.

a world beyond their horizon and ideas they never hear discussed in their neighborhood.

I'm also a writer. I just privately published a book of my essays first published here on DU on art. I am working on another book on the convergence of art and music. It's a vast subject and hard to get a grip on...

Have you heard of the book by Denis Dutton (who founded the great Arts and Letters Daily website)

The Art Instinct?

I found it helpful to understanding what in the human nature makes us want to create.

in case I think I "know it all" and find something new and interesting. It's great.

It's can occasionally regrettably be necessary to refuse to be manipulated with pretend doubt, or even real, of what should be known or is easily confirmed. Gratifying some hostile jerkwad by dancing on his string is not the way to discourage this behavior. And if I recall correctly, merely handing the string back was always more polite than other responses that came to mind.

You know, I say, "Trump fired 4 inspector generals in two months."

And they riposte, "I didn't hear anything about that. Where did you get that?"

"It was widely reported."

And they say, "Link,please?"

Yeah, right, they've been willfully ignorant, and I'm supposed to go find links for them? Like they can't type "trump inspector generals fire" as fast as I can?

Nah, they just want to pretend that this widely reported almost inescapable information is arcane and probably published -- if at all-- only in crazy socialist left-wing media-- of course, if I give them a link to the article in Business Insider, they'll proclaim that a crazy socialist left-wing journal.

Every once in a while I'll mention something I read that's seemingly not widely known but is too old for me or others to locate without a great deal of trouble, and of course that and being unable to at least point someone in the right direction is very different.

Like once reading in a reputable journal with excellent connections that ex- Biden staffers were saying he met with Warren in 2015 to discuss the possibility of her being his VP running mate, and that when considering running he was looking only at her. Both too interesting to forget (especially with media memes of them feuding, completely different, etc. reminding me) and to not mention years later.

starting EVERY response to a question with "So,---".

In the unused but should be category: "kakocracy", "fuster cluck" and, oh---I dunno---how 'bout "guillotine"?

"inexplicable" or "inexplicably" alot lately.

I wish people would learn to use their native language.