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Garry Kasparov called someone a tankie on twitter (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep, the elitism for sure. NGL, it's embarrassing that it's taken me this long to realize that a lot of reactionaries aren't "dumb sheeple", but complete asswipes that think they're better than everyone else. With the "chess is for smart people" bullshit, no wonder a lot of the top chess players have politics that match their pompous attitudes.

frothingfash : "I am better than everyone else and therefore people like me deserve special treatment to ensure no rube 'steals' power that I earned by birthright."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of chess players are stupid as hell, they're just really good at chess. There's a lot of reverence for the game but it's basically a combination of high level trivia and poker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I had a guy at work once tell me that chess players were the smartest people on the planet. I told him that if that was true, then they would be doing something other than play a board game. It's like thinking that being good at StarCraft 2 makes you good at computer programming. Absolutely wild assumptions.