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by basedgod 1421 days ago
you keep using that word, "dog pilled"

I do not think it means what you think it means

https://incels.wiki/w/Dogpill

1 comments

It’s a deliberate double meaning, maybe even a triple meaning.

(1) a ‘dog pill’ as in ‘a pill for dogs’ as in ivermectin

(2) that document you mention which is one of the most remarkable expressions of postmodernism in that it parodies the rest of that Incel wiki and all of the literature of the social sciences going back to durkheim’s book on suicide. In short that document calls into question the possibility that you could understand anything about human suffering no matter how much rhyme or reason you use.

(3) the logical endpoint of the idea that you can give someone a ‘pill’ that alters their world view permanently and changes everything about them. With bad ideas you can make people storm the capitol building or drop out of school, work and life (e.g. happened to incels I know)

1 and 2 are both cases of 3.