thanks to the nyt mini crossword i have learned about the word "wonk" and it is a very nice word
@wallhackio everyone was calling clinton a “policy wonk”
@aescling that's a good phrase right there i like it
@wallhackio it’s honestly appealing of her, to me at least. too bad her actual policies were Hot Ass
@wallhackio maybe i’m just Autistic but being a policy wonk is cute to me
about political discourse
@aescling @wallhackio you don't get called a policy wonk for having good policies
re: about political discourse
@alyssa @wallhackio true
re: about political discourse
@aescling @wallhackio sorry, that was flippant and not in keeping with instance policy.
re: about political discourse
re: about political discourse
@alyssa @wallhackio abdul el-sayed might be the One counterexample; his campaign fur governer during the 2018 purrimary was wonkish as hell
re: about political discourse
@alyssa @wallhackio idk if be actually got CALLED a wonk though; barely anybody talked about him
uspol
@aescling @wallhackio Wasn't that Warren?
@wallhackio I learned it from The Expanse
All the nerds are science wonks
@coriander i was the BIGGEST physics wonk of all time
@wallhackio @coriander yeah
@aescling @coriander i memorized page numbers for equations in our textbooks it was bad
@wallhackio @coriander this was supposed to say “real” but i’ll accept what swipe to type decided instead
@wallhackio you were not reading liberal Takes during the 2016 election