{"id":12957,"date":"2018-10-26T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2018-10-26T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:30:08","slug":"rationalbros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/10\/26\/rationalbros\/","title":{"rendered":"rationalbros are mainly interested in scoring points in the rationalbro game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a collection of notes and tweets I have about the times I&#8217;ve used the phrase &#8220;rationalbro&#8221;. I may someday turn this into a proper essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s this fucking annoying thing that rationalbros do where they accuse you of &quot;baiting&quot; them when you ask them genuine questions that reveal the shallowness of their thinking.<br><br>Which in turn is quite revealing of their &quot;gotcha&quot; model of the world. Blatant sophistry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8mmCkIF7F\">pic.twitter.com\/g8mmCkIF7F<\/a><\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/933149967136391168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">good tweetstorm about sealioning rationalbros <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AuxV9wKIfc\">https:\/\/t.co\/AuxV9wKIfc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/894415188106936320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So I think you\u2019re definitely right about this &#8211; sex is probably better with people who are honest and open, and men generally probably assume honest and open women are \u201cunstable\u201d because their point of reference = \u201ccalm\u201d rationalbros with no skin in the game<\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1029990141949968384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scene at Castle Black where Jon Snow is emo abt being ganged up on, then learns the others have it worse? All rationalbros need that seminar<\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/922305766953959424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">libertarianism is cool in theory but in practice it&#39;s basically a secular megachurch for rationalbros<\/p>&mdash; visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1040250669905526784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of notes and tweets I have about the times I&#8217;ve used the phrase &#8220;rationalbro&#8221;. 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