98 points

Communism built a society in which an insufferable goober like that is able to spend all their time playing a little game while pretending it’s important. Those tAnKiE sCuM won WW2 so he could play with horsey pieces instead of working.

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very take ngl

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34 points
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never ask Kasparov on his position on Columbus or BLM movement

or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common

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or what Elisha , Pope Gregory VII, Saint Basil of Caesarea, Emperor Jingzong, Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius all have in common

they all drank wine and received wheatcakes?

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4 points

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)

Fomenko claims that the most probable prototype of the historical Jesus was Andronikos I Komnenos (allegedly AD 1152 to 1185), the emperor of Byzantium, known for his failed reforms, his traits and deeds reflected in ‘biographies’ of many real and imaginary persons.[18] The historical Jesus is a composite figure and reflection of the Old-Testament prophet Elisha (850–800 BC?), Pope Gregory VII (1020?–1085), Saint Basil of Caesarea (330–379), and even Li Yuanhao (also known as Emperor Jingzong or “Son of Heaven” – emperor of Western Xia, who reigned in 1032–1048), Euclides, Bacchus and Dionysius.[citation needed] Fomenko explains the seemingly vast differences in the biographies of these figures as resulting from difference in languages, points of view and time-frame of the authors of said accounts and biographies. He claims that the historical Jesus was born in Cape Fiolent, Crimea, on December 25, 1152 A.D. and was crucified on March 20, 1185 A.D., on Joshua’s Hill, overlooking the Bosphorus.[19]

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Fomenko’s historical ideas have been universally rejected by mainstream scientists, historians, and scholars, who brand them as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience,[38] but were popularized by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov.[39][40][41] Billington writes that the theory “might have quietly blown away in the wind tunnels of academia” if not for Kasparov’s writing in support of it in the magazine Ogoniok.[42] Kasparov met Fomenko during the 1990s, and found that Fomenko’s conclusions concerning certain subjects were identical to his own regarding the popular view (which is not the view of academics) that art and culture died during the Dark Ages and were not revived until the Renaissance. Kasparov also felt it illogical that the Romans and the Greeks living under the banner of Byzantium could fail to use the mounds of scientific knowledge left them by Ancient Greece and Rome, especially when it was of urgent military use. Kasparov does not support the reconstruction part of the new chronology.[43]

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1 point

Incredible that Jesus died over 1000 years after the founding of Christianity.

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2 points

They’re all Jesus.

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He thinks a pope who lived a thousand years after Jesus was Jesus? I can’t even express in words how obviously dumbass that is

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noted dweeb garry kasparov posts another L

Death to America

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27 points

Deep Blue was a tankie spy

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71 points

what is it with chess players and being reactionary shitbags

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21 points

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Botvinnik was the coolest chess grandmaster.

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Always been a boy’s club, and not a good one. Just like golf. Patriarchal elite sport.

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1 point

Che loved chess, if memory serves. It’s a good game when removed from the established sport. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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22 points

Woah, let’s not go that far. Chess at least requires skill and has a lower carbon impact.

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If you have the time and resources to get good at a game like chess and believe the IQ bullshit in chess culture, it’s not that hard to end up a reactionary.

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35 points

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.

: “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.”

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23 points

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.

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they’re gamers

Death to America

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