The Dim Devil’s Dictionary (D3): “Maudochromatic”
With apologies to Ambrose Bierce, I’m starting a 21st century recension of the Devil’s Dictionary here at Rotten Chestnuts. But since it hardly takes a wit the level of Bierce to see through dumbass...
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D3: Virtue Addiction / Virtue Junkie
These are terms actually coined over at Morgan’s place, but I have a feeling we’ll be needing it a lot over here. Virtue Addiction N. A form of narcissistic projective identification in which the...
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D3: “Moonwalk” / “Moonwalking”
Moon*walk. Verb. 1.To retreat to the numerical half of a two-placed empirical / political proposition. 2. To pretend that the truth / falsity (verifiability / unverifiability) of the empirical claim...
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D3: “The Banzai Gambit”
We must pass it to find out what’s in it! Ban*zai Gam*bit. noun. Essentially the imperative form of moonwalking, the Banzai Gambit is a proposition in the form “X, therefore Y,” where X is empirical,...
View ArticleQuestions You’re Not Supposed to Ask
What the fuck does this accomplish? BERKELEY — For the 100 or so women and girls — and a smattering of male allies — who danced in Civic Center Park on Thursday afternoon, Valentine’s Day wasn’t about...
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Authoritah!!!
Over at Morgan’s we’re having another endless thread about “science.” This time it’s about the proper use of “authority,” and the fallacy of Appeal to same. An Appeal to Authority is a logical fallacy...
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D3: Goodperson Bingo
Surprising absolutely nobody, liberal twit New York Times reporter (BIRM 3x) Nick Kristof isn’t too happy about the new Pope’s lack of progressive credentials: Pope Francis seems liberal on social...
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D3: Liberal Transitivity Axiom
For some reason this came up in a Google Image search for “transitivity.” Let’s just go with it. The Crimson Reach has noticed part of the Liberal Transitivity Axiom. Why doesn’t the left, instead of...
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D3: Beachhead Facts
Morgan has a good post about liberal “arguments.” The catalyst is some bullshit about Global Weather, but it applies across the board — these people talk and talk and talk (and talk and talk and...
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D3: Doin’ the Humpty Hump
Can you define that for me? Confucius insisted on the rectification of names. To truly define something is to understand its proper relationship to everything else, and so proper definitions are...
View ArticleD3: Spliteral
Spliteral – a technique of refudiation, in which a metaphor or other rhetorical trope is split from its context and taken literally in order to “disprove” a speaker’s broader point and / or “prove” a...
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D3: Colonel Jessup Moment
Methinks the SJWs are about to have a Colonel Jessup Moment. You want me on Twitter. You need me on Twitter. Vox Day notes that the rabbits have come up with a “block list” for Twitter users they find...
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The Top Three Signs You Might be a Secret Leftist
Over at House of Eratosthenes, we’re having a discussion about the nature and history of Our Betters, the Liberals. While I think Morgan and I have reached broad agreement, there are a few things that...
View ArticleD3 Challenge: That Weird Amnesia Thing
As y’all know, the Dim Devil’s Dictionary (D3) exists to put catchy tags on the characteristically dumb shit lefties do. I’m nowhere near the wordsmith Morgan is, so I’m asking for your help. We need...
View ArticleLITERALLY a Metaphor
Kids these days can’t process figurative speech. Literally can’t process it, which is why they say “literally” all the time. If you’re under 30, it’s like… like… I’m sure there are cog-sci studies on...
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