• Queen HawlSera
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    876 months ago

    Thought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.

    • @samus12345
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      476 months ago

      Not YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.

      • runeko
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        236 months ago

        I also often hear “It is what it is” to mean “someone made a bad decision and I’m not fighting it like I should.”

        • Gnome Kat
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          116 months ago

          I see it used oftentimes to dismiss systematic injustice aswell… “it is what it is”…

          which on an individual level feels like we have no control over but is infact something we have a lot of control over. A very malignant useage I feel

        • @samus12345
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          86 months ago

          Yes, the subject being dismissed is what makes it a good or bad thing. Is it something you have zero control over? Good thing. Otherwise, bad thing.

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          I associate it with “I suck as a manager, but I kiss ass hard enough to fail upward.”