I have never once heard people use this word
Moonbat was a preferred term used by American conservatives/ chuds to describe "the extreme left" back in like 2010. And by extreme left, it really only meant liberals they saw on MSNBC who thought that imperialism should have a bit more polite wording to it. I don't think any actual leftist has ever been called a "moonbat". The term has pretty strongly fallen out of favor since
George Monbiot's name, apparently? I remember hearing that like 10 years ago.
Pretty sure this was a Limbaugh thing.
From the folks unironically calling themselves "Dittoheads" and "Rushbots", a pejorative.
by the timing it sounds like that's about when they switched to saying sjw
I believe it was paired with "wingnut" - a neologism of "right wing nutso" - from the liberal side.
It looks like moonbat may have gained popularity thanks to George Monbiot, in the UK, being an outspoken liberal. So I imagine it just trickled across the pound and caught on among American conservatives because they thought it sounded pithy.
How is that an insults, sounds fucking cool. What's up fellow moonbats
yeah might steal this for whenever i need to name a project or action group or something
The only person I remember using it was my grandpa, but that's because he was too polite to say pussy or f-gg-t. I think it was a conservative talk radio thing, which was the primary cultural touchstone for the right back then. Isn't the world something? Just 11 years ago it was talk radio, now the primary driving force for the right wing in the USA is a larp on an image board that shares child porn.
Y'all zoomers don't remember when conservatives would call the naive progressive Obama supporters "moonbats"? It was nearly as common to hear it from Tea Party chuds from around 2007-2011 as it was to hear "cuck" from the MAGA chuds from 2015-2017.
Yo I'm a millennial and I've never heard it.
Maybe it's 'cause I'm not American? idk
It's of a similar provenance to "wingnut" to describe a right-winger. Kids need to get off my lawn I'm trying to watch jib-jab Flash videos but for some reason Flash isn't working.
I agree, I remember hearing it and would say it’s equivalent to wingnut, but wingnut has a more obvious meaning since it’s just an abbreviation of “right wing nut job”.
Sounds like a term you'd use to describe the kinda hippie woo salt crystal type.
Which I think they were going for. But those types are usually reactionaries in disguise, though.
I had a very weird moment because I forgot you were on this forum hahaha
Aww I expected pig poop balls but you actually made something cute instead
That sounds like something someone who calls Aaron Sorkin a communist would say
I guess it’s the equivalent of a wingnut but for the left instead of right
