I know its from the Big Bang Theory and its used in context with capitalist techbros, but what is is definition? (Edit)

  • Grebgreb [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    someone who worships the capitalist techbros is my understanding. a bazinga brain probably loves tesla and the thinks the single lane death tunnel is brilliant.

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    11 months ago

    People obsessed with entrepreneurial great men, obsessive fears over "our glorious technological advancements" vs "their dangerous inhuman experiments", fetishising technological superiority in stuff like warfare etc.

  • culpritus [any]
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    11 months ago

    In the show it was basically a tagline for the most smuglord character, used especially when he was being the most smuglord sort of like 'gottem' but more dorky

    as others are saying, it has come to mean a mix of stemlord thinking and treat worship, so like folks that bootlick melon-musk because "he's saving humanity from a dying planet" type thinking

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    11 months ago

    It's like the futurist movement in post-WW1 Italy that later got absorbed by fascism, but instead of airplanes they worship Elon Musk.

      • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Yes, since its aesthetics and idealism over material reality and conditions, sort of like religious cults.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I'm actually wondering, Did the futurist movement have any inherent tendencies that led it to fascism?

        Yes. In Italian Futurism's own manifesto it spoke of burning down libraries, abolishing compassion and tenderness in all its forms, and destroying anything feminine in society in favor of phallic masculine imagery of rockets and cars everywhere. It was like a practice run for the kind of shit up-yours-woke-moralists preached generations later.

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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    11 months ago

    Bazinga is the common name for a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World War II.1

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    11 months ago

    I use it to describe a specific kind of futurist tech bro who think great men like Elon will save us all with their infinite genius. Bootlickers who believe we should relinquish all our possessions for the effective altruists because they're just better than us and can use their wealth more effectively.