another asshole to BOYCOTT

With the UKR mining deal, some Americans may be able to increase their irony intake. NdGT doesn't need any; he gets his from supernovas. Chill, everyone.

George, don’t post deliberately misleading clickbait garbage. It’s beneath you, and robs legitimacy from anything else you post.

celebs are thirsty for attention

Come on! It’s pure irony. Why the confusion? Maybe it needs a Brit to point this out to some of you across the pond.

I hope it was an attempt at sarcasm that just fell flat. Please say it’s so

What an idiotic headline. There is no confusion unless you are just a dumbass or can't be bothered to read. Fucking jeez. 🙄

No confusion really; he had one maga and two other hats with different text on them and was wondering, or rather asking which one to pick

Not “him too!”?

It wasn’t a bunch of MAGA hats. It was a MAGA hat with lookalike hats mocking MAGA. How hard was this to understand? Or are we just that eager to hate Tyson for…reasons or whatever?

I mean, was the equivalence here that hard to spot?

I don't see how this was unclear in any way

He's missing a 5th hat: Make Red hats Limp Bizkit again

Now that's something that could heal the nation!

Irony is dead.

If they’re confused they didn’t read the hats! Very funny image!

Makes sense. They announced their intention to totally wreck the current EV car market. If Elon’s claims are to be believed they are about to take a huge step towards saving the planet and changing everything with his revolutionary hydrogen technology. This could be an enormous boom for America. ✊🏼

He sure had me fooled.

Not sure what's so confusing. I think his point was obvious and unflattering to MAGA.

He is engaging in mockery

Make astrophysics great again

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If you read the hats and caption, the point is clear. Right?

"Fear is a great motivator and mobsters/Nazis are really good at instilling fear. You never know who might knock on your door with an offer you can't refuse." Lou Stules.

I unfollowed him when he mentioned 'LEON' earlier this week and posed in a Mars T-shirt. I don't have time for this. I don't care who you THINK you are.

The dude is anti MAGA.

It means nothing. A bid for algorithmic favor, and probably not much else. People are out here getting upset about the wrong things, and it's a distraction from the real work ahead: get rid of the ✨actual fascists.✨

Which is exactly when I unfollowed him.

Did you actually read it

This article is such deliberately-shitty clickbait. *Parody MAGA hats. There, I fixed your misleading byline, folks. Pay me

Funny, for me they looked nothing like Maga hats. Expect the colour

Jesus. What was so difficult to grasp here.? This is the stupid bullshit of the left dipshits that allow the trumplicans to run unfettered.

He's weaponizing how annoying he can be.

Only one MAGA hat, the rest were parodies, including one reading "relax, it's just a red hat"

I think it was a joke But holy crap, is he sick? Maybe it's just the weird angle, but he looks like he's lost half his body weight.

Get a grip people! He hasn’t gone MAGA. But he sure as hell is trolling the fuck out of them!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What is the controversy? Elegant trolling in my opinion.

I mean... I know how I interpret it, but maybe it was just clickbait.

Great. More clickbait. Just what this failing republic needs more of🙄

I can’t stand that man. If he turns out to be a paedophile I won’t be the first one surprised.

This doesn’t seem confusing at all

Ain't gotta worry about Mr. Sulu doing that

It's ONE MAGA hat and three other VERY non-MAGA red hat variations.

Though Neil tries to be non-biased he has been throwing shade at the current administration. The post with the pic of red hats was also a set up for a 48 hr poll.

Don't you cause confusion Tyson you're one of the only people in this apparent world who can communicate that science trumps religion don't you dare start poking your hand in the maga world unless it's to mock

I understood what he was doing. People just don't understand irony anymore.

Read! They were making fun of Mage hats.

I don't fully get it, but he's not pro-Trump

The most non-descript thing ever. Even I am busting my head whether it's genuine or he's just ribbing us.

I’d go with number three

I agree with every hat.

Wtf???

Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

What you can’t see is the hat just out of the frame that says, Nobody Beats the Wiz!’

He's got Chuck Nice to advise on Comedy! Neil, use the expert!

No he didn't. Write a better (and more honest) headline than this clickbait garbage.

Why??? Frigging why?

Joe Rogan… somehow

Ugh.

I wouldn’t be surprised, he’s always given me the creeps for some reason. I *should* like him, but my gut tells me he’s not a good person.

MAGA, anti-MAGA, and silly jokes

People will do just about anything for money. He was simping for Rogan the other day. This is all a surprise?

A man holds up anti maga hats and your clickbait article questions whether he has become maga. Unsubscribe.

Read all the hates. I think he’s mocking them. 🤞

I've been confused about him for awhile. Many PHDs are earned and then new/more information emerges, but the PHD holders to feel threatened instead of evolving

He held up four hats. All the pearl clutchers read two.

I would like the men that my nephew admires to stop turning out to be utter shites.

It's literally not difficult to understand what he was doing. I have no idea how people didn't catch that.

This feels really scummy like some cancel culture bullshit, George. I'm super disappointed in you for taking the low road against someone who's a dyed in the wool progressive.

Relax, it’s just a red hat.

He’s misogynist

He’s dead to me!

Uhhh, keep us updated, I guess!!!

It says - don’t hold anyone in such high esteem just because they are good or great at something .. look into their heart first !

Best take is it was a joke that didn’t land. Worst: he’s getting out in front of sexual assault allegations.

"Didn't land" makes sense. Remember the rule: "Comedy and brain surgery are occupations that are best left to professionals."

I bet mr. Takei's emojis were not aimed at the hats themselves, but at the reactions of people to the hats (something which sadly appears to be repeated in this thread of comments). Why don't people think before they react? It couldn't be clearer that mr. Tyson is posting something against MAGA.

Very compatible with my idea of humor. I might have added a red hat that says "I bought this before MAGA existed."

I have seen nothing that makes me believe he has gone over to the dark side. 🚫MAGA

He was making fun of MAGA

The hats are parodies.

Have we tried asking him?

Yeah the thread has like 10k comments IIRC. Half of them magats saying "you switched sides" the other half being like "the allegations got to you too eh?"

No confusion thinks I. I still think he’s sore that Carla Sagan’s Cosmos is still more popular than his own.

I hope this is not what it feels like, the world is bad enough, if it can happen to Neil, I'll start feeling worried about Bill Nye

"[P]eople on X[sic] seemed really confused... if not outright angry." This is news?

NDT has definitely gone to the dark side. Incredibly disappointing

It's called sarcasm

Same kind of parody as this

Yeah, I've found this comicsands site to be pretty much useless. Between a bunch of embedded tweets that may or may not load, the crapload of ads, useless clickbait articles...not going there ever again.

I saw it as sarcasm, the choice is an easy one and I don't think it's anything more than poking the MAGAs

He's been a grifter for a while

George are you now just into clickbait 😀

Dear George, Please remove this post. The article title, in itself, is A LIE. @neildegrassetyson.com did NOT "post with a bunch of MAGA hats". There was exactly ONE MAGA hat, and THREE hats that were MOCKING MAGA. bsky.app/profile/neil...

honestly, i never want to tell george what to post, but i think you make a good point here, and i hope he considers it. (… though i wouldn't have been aware of this if george hadn't posted it. a better accompanying text would have helped. "twitter users fooled by tyson tweet of parody hats".)

It's pretty clear @neildegrassetyson.com was trying to hint to MAGA that they need to get SMART. And if anyone thinks Neil is a secret Trump supporter, they don't know the guy at all. bsky.app/profile/neil...

Neil is sloshing around in money and near death, just like the republican party as a whole. There's something about being filthy rich and old that makes people want to elevate themselves above others and I just don't see it. You're just US too. What is it you hope to achieve? You're going to die.

I lost respect for the guy for going on Rogan's podcast. Not a good look...

bsky.app/profile/capt...

So like, did he BUY the MAGA hat though? It still supports Trump, even if it's for a bit.

In the current climate, satire and the realities of what is going on are increasingly hard to distinguish...

It was a poll

They weren't MAGA hats except for one off to the side! The rest were red with white lettering that said things like "Make America Smart Again" and "Make Lying Wrong Again." He was asking which would we rather wear.

So far, from what I've seen, it's a case of him...not being able to read the room very well. It does seem like he was trying to make satire.

This is no surprise. He’s a joke

I guess Tyson expected that the overwhelming majority of his target audience was smart enough to get the message (the majority of the voters did). Considering the responses in his thread, I think he underestimated the percentage of people who would just look for the next excuse to cancel someone.

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Did anyone here actually read the article? Cause going by the responses, I don't think you did.

He also posted some other stuff about rush getting that award and how his hearing implant was developed by NASA

Yeah I was pretty confused

Sorry George, you must have missed the sarcasm.

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Say it aint so......

They were just made in China hats

As much as I loathe Tyson’s ethical takes, this is misleading clickbait.

Let's be clear, one real hat is too many. It's not funny or clever or even tactful (he never has been that). It's common knowledge that he's an asshole and only posts for attention. That and he's been a creep towards women with zero consequences. Wouldn't shock me at all if he were MAGA honestly.

LOL,... as explained in comic sands, waaaay at the end: ➡️ Tyson commented: "While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great." "To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart." "But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again." Okay... sure.

[and this is the sad but true part] Whatever the point of this little experiment was, people on X seemed really confused by the whole thing—if not outright angry. 🔚

Oh, please, don't let him be a Trump supporter.

Not confusing at all. Click bait title.

Sexual assault accusation incoming Bet

They already dropped five or six years ago. www.vox.com/identities/2...

I'm always surprised when people DON'T know about this.

To be fair I do not follow him on anything and he’s like a TV astrophysicist, like Bill Nye with a telescope. If I want astrophysics I’m looking to Neil Turok- A. His parents were huge anti-apartheid activists B. He’s brilliant and C. Nobody should underestimate his skills as a dinosaur hunter

Bet.

Raped a friend in college

That scans He reads as an egotist and a fake- nice guy

I've read a number of accounts that all said when he's not on camera, he's a giant asshole.

Didn't he once compare school shootings to shark attacks? Yeah, I can believe he's an asshole.

Smh there is an Indian man in jail in Georgia because a lady said he tried to kidnap her child!!!!

Comedy is harder than astrophysics.

Rajesh Koothrappali was right about NDT.

It's not clever. It's not making some excellent point. He just wants attention.

Did people read all the hats???? 🤦🏾‍♀️ make reading fundamental again!!!!!

Make stuff make sense again? That would do.🫠

You had me stressed for a sec. 🤣

He is attempting to explain de- evolution

Ironically, I'm currently in PA and was at a Sheetz. I was greeted by one of the employees asking how I was? I responded, triggered. They asked why? I said that I'm not used to seeing so many red hats. They didn't recognize my association at first. Just a funny story about hats.

This isn't confusing at all. Tyson has always been a pacifist. He simply isn't advocating violence. He is showing us that some of what "they" want is also something "we" want. The they and we in those statements are no more specific than his posts. We all want a better, smarter, and more honest Amer

ica. We clearly disagree on how to achieve that but nothing excuses bad behavior. There is a lot of bad behavior and I have seen it on both sides of the isle. I have said since Trump 1 that yes he is a bad president and others in that race would have been better presidents but both sides have

issues and they both put forth people for the role based on their needs not ours. They tend to find someone who can make it look like they will address our needs as a whole but in the end they never do. Like Mr. Tyson I don't advocate violence, but we need a much bigger change then from one party

to the other. Our system is broken fundamentally, and while I hate the things I see happening, I am also thankful for specific and unmuted examples of the things we need to address in order to be that better America we all dream of.

Lol. You got me.

@georgetakei.bsky.social . You need to remove this post. It is incredibly misleading. Misinformation at its best

Not very confusing. He was making fun of the anti- science agenda of MAGA. I have problems with him, but worrying about him being the least bit pro- Trump isn’t one of them.

That's the comment I was hoping for

And he didn’t post a pic w/ a bunch of MAGA hats. That’s intentionally misleading. 1 was a MAGA hat. The rest were just red hats that said better shit as a comparison. Some people (I don’t mean you George) get confused way too easily and can’t understand a point until it’s completely spelled out.

I have the same take. Not confusing in the least.

George, take this one down.

This honestly doesn't surprise me

They weren’t “a bunch of MAGA hats.” Drop the clickbait act, George. It’s beneath you.

I really hate that he posts click bait stuff. I'm sure he gets paid to share them too. Which extra sucks. It's the one reason I've unfollowed him on most platforms. Was hoping here would be better :(

Come on people in the comments, he is clearly holding two MAGA hats and two hats that are obviously not MAGA hats. He isn't turning MAGA... A red hat that says 'maka lying wrong again' is obviously a dig at Trump

i mean he's holding 1 MAGA hat and the rest have different texts *

I’ll wait for his explanation

i thought he was making fun of those idiots, i like three of those hats

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Oh thank goodness. When I saw the first clickbait headline, I was worried Mr. Tyson had been bitten by a maga zombie.

Argh. Upon seeing more about this, I am less relieved and more concerned.

Garbage click bait

There were 4 hats with different slogans, clearly it was a way of saying that in order to Make America Great they need to "Make Lying Wrong Again" because Trump is a liar and then they need to "Make America Smart Again" because Trump and his supporters are Dumb asses and need education.

Damn people are stupid. But we wouldn’t be in this predicament if more Americans were good at critical thinking

All the articles you share are from super spammy sites with tons of ads. Do you read the articles on these sites?

I have to question if you’ve stopped reading what you’re posting.

i'm not confused tbh

I wrote him off when he said Pluto wasn't a planet....and this.....

Whoever wrote the comicsands article is a moron. The hats are parodies.

Nope Kiss of death

I dunno what’s so confusing about it. Pretty funny to me.

"Make lying wrong again," is written on one. "Make America smart again," is written on another. His expression says it all. deGrasse Tyson's message is still on point.

Meh, he's not Carl Sagan. I've not agreed with his nonsense for some time. While I hate the "us and them" narratives and agree there is only us and no them, Tyson is still kind of a butthead.

It seems like unquestionably mocking to me.

George, I followed you cause your bio promises "recipes and tips" but all you post is clickbait articles. Very disappointing

I'm still mad about Pluto.

Pluto just changed its "gender" we can accept. Pluto is now a dwarf planet instead. Still a planet, just with the qualifier Dwarf in front of it. <3

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It's a bit of an odd way to go about things, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

Did anyone actually read what the hats said? It wasn’t MAGA.

I’m not confused

He's a scientist right? This has to be a social experiment.

Three of the hats were not MAGA hats. I think one was Make America Smart Again. He had a weird post about Elon, but after that it's all very anti-maga posts.

It seems obvious to me that this is a poorly planned bit of anti-Trump Snark. Just read the words on the hat! Make America smart again. Make lying wrong again. Etc

Wow 🤯 I didn’t want to believe the sexual assault allegations and they are unproven but in light of MAGA support I can’t help but question his character. This one hurts. I have been a big fan over the years. Is he really MAGA or is he mocking them?

You could just look at the picture, he's holding 4 hats. One of them is a MAGA hat, 3 of them are mocking MAGA and in the caption he's wondering which one to wear. It is obviously a dig at MAGA, but people are so quick to come to conclusions based on a headline. He's mocking them.

I did look at the picture and that is why I asked … wasn’t sure if I had missed something.

Nonstory. He posted several different hats, most of which pointed out the blatant attacks of the regime on intelligence, science, critical thinking, and devotion to the truth regardless of outcome. His only mistake was assuming Twiddler users were smart enough to understand the point...

honestly, i think he assumed a lot would vote for "great", and he was trying to get some of them to understand it's hard to be great when you're lying & not being smart. only way out of this mess is for some of the brainwashed to get that they are being lied to & used/abused, and leave the abuser.

I think a lot of it had to do with exactly that. It's just that, well, most of the MAGA folks don't understand the need to be smart or to tell the truth, especially in science.

It seems like he's a bit too smart for his audience. Always a dangerous gambit.

Read the hats.

I mean, dude is a rapist anyway...

I have a hat I wear, not red, but it reads “Make America Kind Again”.

He’s for sure making fun of the hats.

Do I have to stop believing that space exists?

There is nothing 🤔 about this; He makes his point pretty clear. To be better you must be smarter, more trustworthy, quit rage baiting because sometimes it is just a red hat.

COMBOS!

I have a red hat as well. "Canada is already great"