[1]After Nike hires Colin Kaepernick for ad campaign, conservative
   halfwits destroy own property to own the libs:

     bathetic

   (Via [2]Boing Boing)

   From Webster's 1913 Dictionary:

     Ba′thos (bā′thŏs), n. [Gr.βάθοσ depth, fr.βαθύσ deep.] (Rhet.)
     A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or
     speech; anticlimax.

   Bathetic is producing an unintentional effect of anticlimax: the movie
   manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic.

   Thanks, Rob!
   Also on:

   [3]Twitter
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   My original entry is here: [4]Boing Boing Introduces Me to a New Word:
   Bathetic. It posted Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:36:48 +0000.
   Filed under: personal,

References

   1. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/03/after-nike-hires-colin-kaepern.html
   2. https://boingboing.net/feed
   3. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1036942082026471425
   4. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1929