Wingnuts are go!
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gordonzolaOK folks, it’s definition time. Who would like to posit a definition for "wingnut" as it applies to a certain type of politico?
Here’s mine:
Wingnut: A person who has their mental health issues so intertwined with their "politics" that to them there is no difference. Paranoia, conspiracy theory, and poor social skills are necessary traits. In addition, ineffectiveness and failure are usually treated as signs that the Revolution is somehow coming closer to happening. The term originated in People’s Park, Berkeley, California and is usually used by slightly embarrassed anarchists and anti-authoritarians to distance themselves from "wingnut’ politics and activists who may also identify with those terms.
Sample sentence: Did you see the wingnuts protesting the "execution" of Rosebud Denovo when the cops shot her for breaking into the chancellor’s home with a machete?
Please feel free to add your own definitions or ask if someone you know fits the definition.
Here’s mine:
Wingnut: A person who has their mental health issues so intertwined with their "politics" that to them there is no difference. Paranoia, conspiracy theory, and poor social skills are necessary traits. In addition, ineffectiveness and failure are usually treated as signs that the Revolution is somehow coming closer to happening. The term originated in People’s Park, Berkeley, California and is usually used by slightly embarrassed anarchists and anti-authoritarians to distance themselves from "wingnut’ politics and activists who may also identify with those terms.
Sample sentence: Did you see the wingnuts protesting the "execution" of Rosebud Denovo when the cops shot her for breaking into the chancellor’s home with a machete?
Please feel free to add your own definitions or ask if someone you know fits the definition.
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english wing nuts
Date: 2004-09-15 03:27 am (UTC)I didn't 'get' the precise meaning of wing nut until I read this thread. I was going to tell the story of the woman who wanted to stop the gulf war (before last...) by getting activists to wrap tape round TV ariels and stop the rays from Bush Senior and John Major corrupting us all. The problem with that was that none of the (mostly Brit Trots) knew what to do and so stared at their feet.
The nearest Britishism I have heard for lefties who are just so vociferously on-their-line that they are almost a parody of themselves is 'hack' or 'head banger' but none of these quite point derision as wing-nut seems to.