• @bitofhope@awful.systems
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    2810 months ago

    You think I hate nerds? Ha ha, fuck you. If I did hate nerds, I could never do the kind of damage to the reputation of the geek subculture that Paul Graham and his like-minded cohorts have.

    Come on out and nerd fight me, posers. I will outnerd you. I will eat you for breakfast. You ain’t got shit on me. Give me six lines written by the hand of the most pedantic bluecheck and I will pedantically point out seven fallacies in them, write a filk song about it and arrange it to chiptune.

    Yet somehow people don’t seem to hate me for being a nerd. I think I’m fairly popular and most people react to my nerdy interests positively, or at worst indifferently. If it sounds like I’m bragging, I’m not saying I’m some super cool gigachad, but that anyone is compared to these losers.

    People don’t hate techbros for being nerds, or men for that matter. If I (a nerdy man) am the one who supposedly hates nerds and men, why are you the one implying that the faults I criticise techbros for are innate to nerds and men?

    Oh well, we all know the real reason techbros hate leftists is that we make so much better art, have better sex, do better science and are oh so resentably attractive.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      If I hated nerds I certainly wouldn’t have Star Trek themed filk music stuck in my head. What I hate is a variety of things including the casual misogyny among nerds of a certain generation (cough gygax) and the way in which tech CEOs and adherents attempt to regild our society.

      And yeah, exactly, if you can interact with others as a nerd nobody hates you these days. Nerdy shit is just culture now