Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Predictably Insufferable New Year’s Take Gets ROASTED On Twitter

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is worshiped as some sort of science lord… which is real awkward when you get down to the reality that he’s just another half-fact spouting narcissist like Bill Nye.

Anyway… he felt the need to spout out this little nugget, because whyyyyy not.

Not that anybody’s asked, but New Years Day on the Gregorian Calendar is a cosmically arbitrary event, carrying no Astronomical significance at all.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 1, 2018

Meanwhile, the dates of Chinese New Year, Lent, Easter, Passover, Saturnalia, Christmas, & Ramadan, all reference astronomical events.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 1, 2018

Okay then, Neil. Hope that makes you feel better somehow?

Whaaaaaatever, dude.

Twitter users decided to take this up with him:

It doesn’t have any nutritional significance either, according to my restaurateur friend, but somehow he still manages to grasp that it’s an important cultural event that doesn’t need filtering through his professional lens and explaining as if everyone were a moron.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 1, 2018

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Neil doesn’t get it:

You were educated at Oxford, so I’m not surprised that some (or most?) of what, and how I Tweet is below you. (p.s. Looks like we both like wine. Perhaps that will one day bring us together.)

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 2, 2018

Neil… he’s saying YOU are condescending. And irrelevant. Because you are.

Given this response, I’m going to guess Neil DOES think his twitter followers are morons… So, that’s awkward.

Please focus on educating instead of being super condescending every other tweet

— Kenny (@Writingwriter05) January 1, 2018

I wonder if you realize your rote,
unimaginative, pedantic, nature has only served to hurt the cause of reason in the public conciseness.
Or is your ego too big too see that?

— Kevin (@Kevqtall) January 1, 2018

Yiiiiiikes.

At least get new material, dude!

You know something is overplayed when, after the first time you hear it you think, this is overplayed...

— Daniel Whelan (@dannybhoyo13) January 2, 2018

Not that everyone hasn’t noticed, but you’re a soul sucking fun governor.

— MrClarkJosephKent (@MrClarkJKent) January 1, 2018

This is SO overdone, in fact... someone predicted he would say this VERY THING a week ago!!!

You'll see another example when on January 1st he'll tweet "happy new year to those celebrating an arbitrary point in the earth's orbit around the sun!"

— neontaster 🚟 (@neontaster) December 25, 2017

BAHAHA!

What it actually comes down to is Neil has a weird obsession with hating on Western culture. F'real. Now that I've pointed it out you'll notice it again.