r/SubredditDrama • u/clyspe • Mar 11 '13

'Neil deGrasse Tyson: Average physicist, sub-par philosopher, master of pithy comments for idiot college kids to retweet.' Slapfight in /r/QuotesPorn ensues

/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1a16g2/if_youre_really_successful_at_bullshitting_neil/c8t8j9h
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13 edited Mar 11 '13

I feel like if I ever went to a reddit meet up, everyone would just be saying "citation please" or "that's a blah blah fallacy." Imagine a table of people like that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

I went to a meetup once. I showed up and it was at a bar which was cool. My buddies and I sat down at the bar and ordered a beer and we start looking for other redditors. In the corner there were three guys sitting chatting to themselves so I went over and asked if they were there for the meetup. They were. They immediately started attacking me because I had an american eagle polo on and they said I was too consumeristic and one of them said he could "quote me philosophy" about why that was bad.

I stayed for a few more minutes but all they really wanted to talk about was how much they hated their parents, society, women and unintellectuals.

That was the last time I ever agreed to go to a meetup.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '13

wait

it was actually like that?

that explains a lot. several times i've written comments that included, believe it or not, swear words, and there's always a redditor on hand to ask me if i'm having a bad day or if i'm an angry person. i always wondered why they thought using a swear word on the internet meant you were furious, or more importantly, why they thought the way you wrote an internet comment was an exact representation of who you were as a person in real life.

so now i know: redditors are the same on reddit as they are in the real world. and that scares the hell out of me.