PSA: training you that "cynicism" means "pessimism" is a tool that smarmy manipulative fucks use to invalidate questioning their motivespic.twitter.com/vi1LfDZiWS
oh this is the other usage of cynicism that i'm mad about though (this one being at least a degenerate case of validity)
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the posture that everybody's motives are shit so one may as well not even try, or act with the worst motives oneself
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you can get there through self-indulgent Holden-Caulfield-esque cynical analysis sure but it's not at all required
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