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Anon is a T.A. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I always took based to be a sort of ironic agreement with a slight political connotation, especially if something said seems particularly "bold."

Essentially "You totally understand who you're talking to (your "base") and the subject at hand; This guy/gal gets it; This is 'based' on hard facts" (especially when seen as controversial and few will admit it.)

You can understand how this became conservative-shitpost parlance for a while but thankfully (and ironically) has become more depolarized. So now I see it like "Yeah this fellow human being understands their fellow human beings!"

"Brainpilled" is just a stupid shift from the term "Red pill", coined by The Matrix and eventually co-opted by conspiracy theorists and others with intense socializing difficulties (that are everyone else's fault, naturally.)

The idea being you made a choice to "see the truth" when nobody else wants to.

It eventually spawned "black pilled" which is a ridiculously nihilist idea that "I see how everything really works now, and it's all terrible and there's zero hope."

And now we're at "brainpilled", like the movie Limitless maybe? LOL. "This person sees it from some genius angle us mere mortals can barely comprehend. They're playing 5D chess and we're still playing Candyland."

I dunno, some of it is fun and descriptive. Some is braindead. Language is like any art, it's like Bruce Lee says: take what works and leave the rest behind. :)