The internet has generated a new usage for the word cope. As a noun, a cope is a specific notion, idea, or claim that is used as a way to avoid confronting an unpleasant truth. This is better known as a psychological defense mechanism but cope has many advantages. First, it's a single syllable. Second, it has this nice dismissive quality which is really useful when telling somebody off online. Third, it has good meme image support.
In the meme version of the universe copes are made from copium. This is a drug that acts to dull the pain of its users sad existence in the fashion of opium. Copium is just as addicting but way cheaper, legal, and only ravages the soul while leaving the body intact. It's typically displayed as a gas tank feeding into an oxygen mask attached to Pepe or Wojak. It comes in many fun flavors like election denial, headcanon, and sigma male to support every kind of dysfunction.
As a term cope and its derivatives is mostly used to dismiss other peoples arguments. It's worth noting that a cope doesn't even have to be literally wrong or false in point of fact. It's enough for it to be motivated by the coper's need to dissociate from some uncomfortable reality. As such it's actually the dismissal of the person as much as what they are saying. Obviously, this is among the more toxic of rhetorical techniques. Unfortunately, there are so many really blatant copes that would require whole essays to untangle in a good faith fashion that it's almost impossible not to use this some of the time. That doesn't make it less toxic it just makes the internet the internet.
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