• Oppopity@lemmy.ml
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        28 days ago

        I feel like there needs to be a good word for someone who has the capacity to do better burlt chooses to dwell in ignorance and should be ashamed of that.

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          28 days ago

          Deeply unserious usually works. They aren’t taking things seriously, or putting in any actual effort, just coasting along on their preconcieved notions.

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        28 days ago

        Ghoul is the only really good one in the list. Its a generic feind thats in no way cool.

        Rogues and vampires are cool.

        Sycophant is good when someone’s being a sycophant. But you can be independently ghoulish.

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          28 days ago

          I’d argue it depends on how you use it. Calling Bezos a blood-sucking vampire of a man that lives more the more he feasts on others is pretty insulting, I’d say.

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            28 days ago

            It should be, but vampires are alluring which belies their evil. That’s the cautionary part of the fiction.

            Is Bezos a soulless ghoul cannibalizing the festering, necrotic wound of poverty which he grows larger every day? Yes, and in no way can that be conflated to being sexy.