The Modernist's Glossary, Or How Fucked Up Things Really Are
Every age has its worries . . . Words and phrases that don't necessarily mean what you think any more Activist = troublemaker, shit stirrer, agitator, hoodlum with a contrived cause Airport security = mainly a series of arbitrary, even silly, procedures that inconvenience, debase and delay passing travellers without really guaranteeing their safety or security in the air or on the ground Anti-abortion, this along with gay marriage = The worm in the world's political apple, the main perennial theme, sung ad nauseum by right-wing political blocs and religious crazies to drive through and impose their broader religio-fascist agendas on everyone else. They have won in the U.S. , sorta, for the moment, a mid-term victory. But the anti-abortion fools don't seem to realize that even if they manage nationally there to re-criminalize on-demand abortions a change in law will do less than nothing for curb the practice; prior to the legalization of abortion in 1973, there were far more illegal abortions per year than there ever have been since the operations were legalized for just shy of 50 years. And even with states rushing to criminalise or recriminalise abortions, those wanting to end pregnancies have travel and tablet options that were unavailable 50 years ago. Anti-capitalist = a person ignorant of history and economics, living in delusion, possibly neurotic, psychotic and/or violent Alternative facts = A Trumpism invented in efforts to hide lies, manipulations, exaggerations and other twists of the truth. This goes hand in hand with the trumpist mantra of 'fake news,' which in this case is any reporting that doesn't go along with the party line. Anarchist = much like an anti-capitalist, though profoundly more ignorant and prone to exhibiting unpredictable, even insane behaviour and committing violent acts
Asylum seeker = usually just an economic opportunist, at best a social welfare system parasite in his/her/their new host country. At worst: they're 'missionaries' of sorts, out to sow their malicious, often
Islamic m
Austerity
(in government finances, fiscal manipulation) = A chump term used by the rich and privileged and their
right-leaning political puppets to steal from the poor or to deprive them of rights and services any decent society would provide
happily and gratis Budget reform, deficit reduction = terms flogged by right-wing politicians and their cheerleaders in an effort to shift attention from their true goals of protecting the interests of the rich at the expense of the poor Catalonia = A captive nation being illegally retained as one of the last parts of a long-ago Spanish empire despite a clear mandate from the Catalonians that they want independence. Spanish leaders and their masters in the European Union want to retain Catalonia because it contributes heavily to the Spanish/EU treasury -- against Catalonia's will. Without Spain/EU sucking Catalonia's economy dry its citizens would be among the best off financially in the world. It's an old story. Christian nationalism = A dangerous philosophy and political model aimed at subverting the constitutional basis of the United States. It is based on an imagined right-wing belief that the nation should was founded on Christian beliefs and that they should be used to dictate how legislative and regulatory initiatives are formulated and implemented. Needless to say, this is pure fascist rubbish espoused by various groups and politics, among them Donald Trump. The American version of the Taliban. Christmas = The year's main celebration of retail madness, coloured lights, general gluttony, runaway greed and the slaughter of billions of turkeys. Joy to the world, Fuck yeah! Fuck off!
Committed vs involved = One has to look to
breakfast for this definition: The pig is committed, whereas the
chicken is merely involved.
Conservatism = This no longer means what it
traditionally did in economic or political terms. Now, on a personal basis, it is
an almost fanatical devotion to selfishness and bigotry in one's
lifestyle and outlook. In reality, In the current political climate
it is closer to fascism than anything else. It's the ultimate me-ism with the credo,
being, perhaps: 'I got mine, fucker, and I'll be damned if I'll let you get
yours (even if it costs me nothing.).' The phrase coming to mind is:
rob the poor and give to the rich. In governing, the same general
tenets dictate, except on a more macro basis. So-called conservative
governments tend to be mean spirited, penny pinching, austerity imposing,
bureaucracies whose aims are to protect the haves at the
expense of the haves-not. They are not driven in the least by
decency and service. And pain and deprivation to their
constituencies is irrelevant to the mongers of these policies. In
the UK these people would be tories; in the U.S.A, they would
generally be Republicans.
Cynic = Your webmaster here. Deadly force = There is almost NO instance where shooting a person in the back and wounding or killling them, especially by police, can be considered anything other than murder. In 99.999 percent of cases, no one can possibly pose an imminent lethal threat if they are facing forward or running away. Dictator, tyrant = any political leader the governments of the US and/or UK don't like or who they want eliminated or replaced. Disney = Creator and broadcaster of pure fucking rubbish. Spewer of propaganda. Part of the fascist swamp that is destroying the planet. Do not subscribe and do not buy Disney-created media! Economics = A pseudo science. Economist = A practitioner of a pseudo science and often, a talented bullshit artist. Estate agent, Realtor, real estate seller, property flogger = a parasite, a bottom-feeding scumbag. European Union = the renewed multi-century effort by Germany and France to control all of Europe; once again, it's not going all that well, though it's nice that ordnance and troops aren't involved this time. Yet.
Fake news = Sometimes there really is fake news. But this term was used
constantly by the current American president Donald Trump and
his supporters, in his efforts to destroy
confidence in the media when they accurately report the craziness he spews
and the criminal acts he other Republicans commit.
Fox News = A dangerous oxymoron Freedom of expression/speech = The bedrock upon which free societies exist or perish if it is thwarted. Most politicians profess to protect this freedom while they relentlessly try to chisel it apart when opportunities present themselves or there is some problem it is causing these opportunists. I have to quote Joni Mitchell: Don't it always seem to go,That you don't know what you've got 'Till it's gone. Amen. Gay marriage = Something else that galls straight Amerika and espcially Republican Amerika. It shouldn't bother anyone, yet those who oppose these unions, and the U.S. Supreme Court, seem to be dedicated to reverse actions that allowed this. On gay marriage, actor/director Clint Eastwood best summed up the idiocy surrounding the opposition: "I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a big deal out of ... Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want."
Gender = A man is a man. A woman is a woman. A man who dresses
as a woman is a man. A man who hides or chops his tackle off to
pretend to be a
woman is just a mutilated man. A man's change of attire does not
change a he into a she. A woman is just that; if she augments
herself to appear or be otherwise, it doesn't change the underlying facts
and genetics of her birth, which included at birth woman's genitalia and
reproductive equipment on board. It would seem simple enough, except in the perverse alphabet
soup in use of late to politically correctly identify all the weirdos
and creepies seeking
recognition of their many and varied sexual variations and social and/or psychiatric
problems. You are not and cannot be neuter (i.e., with removal of
the outer male genitalia), unless, perhaps, you are simply a eunuch.
On the other hand, we refer to a male neutered cat or dog as a 'he,'
so you figure it out. Any different version of the gender question
is an obfuscation in general and a delusion. You may not alter and
pervert the English language to reclassify yourself as a 'they' or
whatever. Maybe you can be an 'it or, if appropriate, a eunuch, This is not to suggest that
people don't have the right to their gender masquerade in a liberal
society. But in the end, boys will be boys and girls will be girls -- forever. 'Nuff said. Global warming, climate change = the no longer so insidious creeping reminder that Nature can end man -- and probably will.
Great (Irish) Famiine = Genocide. Should be called The Irish Holocaust, England's
boldly zealous attempt to kill off the Irish race during the 1840s. Take a peek at a few Hip Hop, Rap, etc., emo = noise I'll ring you back (answer given when seeking something from many a business person or bureaucrat by phone) = Instead, it usually means: 'Fuck off! I'm tired of talking to you and couldn't care less if you ever find what you're seeking. You'll hear from me again shortly after hell freezes over.' ICE = tRump's resurrected version of the gestapo. Israel = A rogue nation run by a homicidal criminal. Journalism = the information circus, largely controlled these days by profit seekers, bean counters,.ego maniacs, would-be stars, ideologues and others involved in making huge amounts of money at the expense of the public's desperate need for objective and accurate news reportage. While feeding their readers/listeners/watchers pap about celebs, wannabe celebs and obscenely overpaid athletes rather than imparting important news in our world, the media shovel out drivel without any regard for the quality or veracity of what they're broadasting or publishing..
Journalists = the clowns in the above circus Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. = The mutant son of Bobby Kennedy. Elevated by Donald tRump to be secretary of health, he is proving he is as ignorant and delusional as he sounds and is being allowed to sicken the country with his nutso belief that science is meaningless and all vaccines are bad. One more boob in the tRump clown car.. LGBT, etc. = queer, in one form or another, and no offense intended -- or avoided. Sick of hearing about it. If I know your sexual preference, I know more than I need or want to know. So run your rainbow flag up your arses. Low-cost or discount airline = a transportation company purporting to save travellers money, but doing so by offering shoddy and/or impolite service, questionable safety and a generally bad travel experience for its customers who really don't get much, if any, real cost relief in exchange for their mistreatment and inconvenience. Middle Class = Something that no longer exists. Ten individuals in the world have amassed more wealth than the other 8.5 billion of us have in total Militia (so called) = A gang, a group of disrupters acting to cause trouble and often promote sometimes illegal and occasional violent activity.
Nationalism = Childish. Selfish. Vicious. All bullshit aside this
means the nationalist is sa NATO = No definition seems to apply. Noem, Christi = fascist imbecile formerly head of the Amerikan effort to persecute and even murder suspected illegal immigrants. North Korea = A place that should not have been allowed to exist. Another half-baked American war caused this. Now the tin pot nut job running this fucked up bit of geography is threatening to use his three or four nuclear bombs to destroy western America.
Patriotism = A form of bigotry
often tinged with insanity, or consider the
words of these brilliant folks.
Politician = Often a greedy megalomaniac with an aversion to telling the truth Politics = Deferring here to Frank Zappa, it's the 'entertainment division of the military industrial complex.' Politically correct = A bullshit term aimed at keeping people from voicing their true opinions and thoughts. Pronouns = Be a he or she, as your whim, fancy, hobby or sexual choice allows. But you are not a they. Perhaps you are an It. Thou shall not fuck with the English language regardless of whatever malfunction you are suffering from. Privatization = The darling philosophy (wank fantasy) of right-wing government operatives and politicians through which socially necessary services usually and/or traditionally provided by government are handed to private for-profit companies to run instead. This has grown out of the right-wing philosophy that government should be run like a business. In fact, government should be run as government, a service to the people -- all of the people, and not necessarily in a profit-making mode. Typically, less profitable segments of whatever is being provided are jettisoned by the private companies to boost their earnings, thus leaving the public desperately needing those services and having nowhere to turn for assistance. Meanwhile, duplicitous politicians and bureaucrats no longer have the non-profitable services on their books and can boast about their new efficiencies in office. Consider some of these critics' thoughts on privatization, such as Noam Chomsky, who refers to it as 'unaccountable tyranny.' Protester = Usually someone eager to push his/her interests ahead of everyone else's under a supposed agenda of promoting some lofty and valued goal or change of his/her own choice
Queer
movement, The = Truly the mouse that roared. Though estimates are that
only about 8 percent of all people have some sort of allegiance to
this very loud mish-mass of misfits and generally defective people, they manage to constantly place
themselves in the public forum. Bravo on a phenomenal promotion
program! At the end of the day, however, I have to agree with a TV
personality who recently stated to them: 'It's not all about you.'
And indeed it is not. Rap/Hip Hop, emo = Noise. Reality TV = An oxymoron; there is no reality involved, and no real entertainment value unless you're mentally impaired or a drooling ward escapee Recession = A nice way to describe the effects of a periodic monetary nut squeeze caused by non-lending financial institutions in the aftermath of their plundering. Referendum = an issue presented for a general vote that gives a sickeningly false and manipulative impression that the public actually controls their governments' action in a supposed true general democratic action.
Religious freedom = one of the most destructive contradiction in terms in all history Religious Right = not right, not religious, just right-wing fascists willing to sacrifice anything to impose the will of this movement's supporters' contrived and cleverly re-invented Jesus mania (anti-Catholic, anti Jewish, anti muslim, anti liberal) on every one who opposes them. Republican (American)
= A crazy person, usually a bigoted fascist who believes strongly in the theory that
they are always right, that black people and Hispanics should not be
able to vote, and that Democrats are Stalinists and, lately, child
predators. Republicans often
package their bullshit in such a way as to be very attractive to
voters, but these idiologues are unable to govern because their
doctrines, like communism, do not in practice work. Single use plastic objects (of all types) = an almost unparalleled example of the corrupt, cynical and irresponsible approach modern society has inflicted on the planet that gives everyone life. They're quick, easy and fuck everything up. Stand-up comedian = usually someone who says fuck repeatedly and does/says lots of vulgar things that usually are not funny. Except for the late George Carlin, Ricky Gervais of course, maybe Chris Rock and Jimmy Carr, who are vulgar, say fuck a lot, but cut to the quick of social and political bullshit quite effectively.
St. Patrick' s Day = A multinational celebration of alcohol abuse and drunkenness.
An opportunity for saloons the world over to try and outdo
themselves with all sorts of faux irishisms, incuding (ugh!) green
beer and green-dyed river. And all references to
'Irish' foodism seem to regale corned beef, something fairly rarely
eaten in Ireland. Tea Party Republicans, MAGA Republicans (America) = Political terrorists, willing to wreck anything in their path to get their way. Sort of an American taliban. Many similarities to their rag-headed Middle East counterparts.
Terrorist = anyone who does something violent or threatening for any reason we don't like, regardless of other possibly
mitigating factors tRump, Donald = The lying felonious conman in chief. The man who will ruin the United States and possibly the free world. The embodiment of a political cancer that developed after a 30-year societal binge into radical right-wing political and radical pseudo christian lideologies in the U.S. and elsewhere. Trump is a convicted criinal and a.man with no moral or ethical compass whatsoever. He is unable to tell the truth, has an appalling ignorance of/or contempt for the U.S. Constitution, who wangled his way into the American presidency in 2016, then lost the 2020 election, has once again conned voters into sending him back to the White House. He continues to threaten the survival of the republic as of this writing. tRump and the absolutely awful pack of chumps and nazis he leads are the most dangerous political threat ever to the United States and, hence, the western world. Will this lying, crazy man and his imbecilic and fascistic efforts finally lead to the toppling of the American experiment?
tRump, government of = a dystopian regime that
was built
on its leader's serial and continuoous lying, mysogyny, xenophobia,
half truths, racial smearing, innuendo, name calling, general and
extensive
ignorance, contempt for legislative procedure, third-hand
information spewing and many more bad things, including spewing an
endless stream of untruths
and obstruction/corruption of legal processes. And don't forget personal,
boundless greed. Oh, and he's just a really bad man. Ukraine = Currently, the military playground for Russia's madman and thug-leader Vladimir Putin. This is Putin's trial baloon to see if he might have free reign to re-consolidate the old Soviet Union, his daydreamed new Russan empire. The possibly syphilitic old bastard may actually fancy himself the next czar, or Hitler. What's next? Moldova, Poland? Latvia? Lithuiania? Hungary? Germany? Bit of more western European countries? So far, things aren't going particularly well for Putin's plan, having lost 1 million troops in his Ukraine debacle. United Nations, The = a joke. Consider its Security Council, where Russia and China (and soon India) shake their little penises at the rest of the world whenever there's an important issue to consider and vote to block anything that remotely makes sense. If the UN ever worked, it ceased doing so a long time ago.
Vegetarianism = A serious eating disorder. Therapy may be employed to fix
this as most sufferers crave complex animal proteins, but the
general outlook is poor. Veganism = A critically serious eating disorder, one that points to deep-seated neuroses that probably are not curable. X-Factor (and all the variations on this theme constantly being aired) = supposedly a music contest, this pile of boring and stinky TV poo is really just a huge money churner for promoters and sponsors. Yule = the winter solstice and the age-old embodiment of what Christmas might have been -- the welcoming back of the God into the world after his exit after the previous year's productive/reproductive season and the onset of winter. Updated as adequate quantities of beer allow.
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adness, in their target countries.
of these for
a plate full of 
ying: My country is better than yours.
More, yours is shit. (See Patriotism)
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As someone once said, Public office is the last refuge of the
scoundrel.
Religion = the biggest con game the world has ever seen.
Why does their god need so much money, anyway?
