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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Following the Watergate scandal, ‘-gate’ became the suffix to name subsequent scandals.

I propose stories associated with Trump, and other stupid scandals, be encrusted with the suffix ‘-a-Lago’.

I think there’s scope for dedicating an entire community to them, like c/MAG_a_Lago.

As for Elongate, Musk explicitly requested it be used, which should be reason enough to not.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think twatgate would be more appropriate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

there have been some twats i've had the privilege of getting to know that were downright life afirming

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The next scandal involving musk should be that he wasn't assassinated sooner.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is a terrible take. Introducing violence into politics always, always, leads to dark places nobody wanted to go. Besides being wrong, it's completely counter-productive.

PS. Yeah, downvoting doesn't make you right to advocate cold-blooded murder that would probably trigger civil war. Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

politics is violent, inherently. taxation is violent, inherently. policing is violent, inherently. control of another is violent, inherently.

the state is, by definition, a monopoly on violence. dont pretend you are above inflicting pain on others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You just said it yourself. In a civilized order it's the state that monopolizes violence. You don't get to invent the laws and prosecute them yourself. Personally I don't want to live in a society of vigilantism or civil war. Bluster aside, I suspect that you don't either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

considering i am a victim of state violence, i already live there.

[–] 21Cabbage 14 points 1 month ago

Calling everything even mildly controversial '-gate' was super played out decades ago IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

"Elongate" is too flattering towards him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

didn't he write a tweet literally saying this? maybe 4 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, after he sexually harassed a flight attendant and laughed about it on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I hate that I like this. The gate thing is super overused. But this one works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I made this joke in a dadjoke subereddit and got banned as it was too adult

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ewww, no, not even with a 10-foot rapier.