‘What should we do when our civilization faces existential threats?’
Reactionaries: ‘React to reduce the threat.’ The Left: ‘Um, what’s an
’existential threat’?’
The level of extreme brain smartness necessary to think that brown people having babies is more of a threat to our civilization than fucking climate change is quite a sight to behold. No wonder we are intimidated by their intellects.
gotta love that their understanding of political terminology is
limited to their first assumption of what a word means based on what it
more or less sounds like
The like by Yud makes it scarier, either it means that he also doesn't know what it means, or he goes with 'spreading the misunderstanding of this concept further in joke form is good because it 'triggers the libs''.
I'm sorry, the guy who freaked out at a technological restatement of a wrathful god and went on a mass delete spree in his private community thinks he can call other people "overreactionaries"?
“Reactionary” means to respond to stimuli, so sneering at this tweet
is reactionary, or overreactionary, or whatever. James Lindsay’s
political intellect, however, is in a coma, so he wins this round.
Guess what I was suptweeting [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/amvped/yudkowsky_subtweets_us/efsyhmk/)
[wikipedia helps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary)
It is worrying that upon encountering a new term, people who want to be rational, go 'I'll just guess' and not look it up. (everybody does it of course, but it is like such an obvious pitfall).
This sneerworthy response:
Ovary Action Ares
ovarie-actionaries?
Or, perhaps “ovaries”?
when your community definitely doesn’t have a sexism problem
The right: ThE lEfT cAn’T mEmE.
Also the right: Keeps recycling a meme old enough to be wearing Victorian muttonchops.
gotta love that their understanding of political terminology is limited to their first assumption of what a word means based on what it more or less sounds like
(Retweeted by the big Yud himself of course)
“Reactionary” means to respond to stimuli, so sneering at this tweet is reactionary, or overreactionary, or whatever. James Lindsay’s political intellect, however, is in a coma, so he wins this round.