Grief tragedy sympathy hope

Hopefully instead of cops everywhere reacting with rage over the news about deaths of young fellow officers, they treat their lives as people treated the life of George Floyd, even if these guys didn't look like you, they were just people that wanted to improve the lives of the people around them and they were happy to be alive trying to do that when they were alive. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry tries to make horror or shock stories to headline the news, and really that does more harm than anything else to what these folks were really about, to focus on things like death all the time.

People that look like anybody can end up like these New York City cops, but how often do you hear much about their lives besides a few seconds on the news, then there is another story. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry might want you to feel a certain way (sad, angry) about something, but they don't tell you that you don't have to if you don't want to.

by The Original Agahnim January 24, 2022

Tragedy

It's a type of soup

You know, the real tragedy is not just what happened to him but that we live in the world where you even have to ask whether or not he is the bad one.

by Hym Iam April 3, 2022

Grief/tragedy/sympathy machine

The machine that keeps the coronavirus hype going.

The girl was part of the grief/tragedy/sympathy machine.

by Solid Mantis December 10, 2020

Grief/tragedy/sympathy machine

A machine that needs functional, cooperative parts to keep going.

If the coronavirus hype didn't keep going, people would begin to wake up. Therefore the grief/tragedy/sympathy machine keeps it going, keeps the misinformation spreading like wildfire.

by Solid Mantis December 10, 2020

tragedy

dead

ay yo tat tragedy died
thats sad lmao

by deadlittlefuckerthateatsbunn February 28, 2021

Trackside tragedy

A term for track and field runners, implying they are overly dramatic, weak, and lack the competitiveness of real athletes, embodying a sense of failure and insignificance in the sports world

"After watching the race, I couldn't help but think of him as a trackside tragedy, all show and no substance"

by Johnthegrassfairy325762365 October 15, 2024

Shit tragedy

When a bunch of evil individuals destroy a country or a place, and continue living at the end.

In a traditional tragedy, all of the characters die at the end but in a shit tragedy like the Fall of the United States, no one is dying so the horrible story isn't over and the damage continues.

by Publius0987 August 5, 2025