Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last weekā€™s thread a different way this time)

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    I really donā€™t know what was he thinking, looks like army did the bare legal minimum so that they wonā€™t be prosecuted for refusing orders. Thereā€™s a couple of things that can be done with minimal number of loyalists that would make coup easier that werenā€™t done, like cutting power to parliament. This makes me guess that military didnā€™t want a part in this at all

    Iā€™ve seen a take that this was an attempt to get entrenched in power before trump admin begins, as in for foreign relations purposes, but like, itā€™s pretty clear that a couple of people from his family and trusted party people were under investigation so him trying to not allow that sounds more likely. Now that wonā€™t work because as far as i understand by the end of the week there will be impeachment vote

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      Iā€™ve seen people in the gun nuttier circles saying that the weapons the army had were configured for training rounds, sort of like airsoft rather than live ammo. It sounds like they were thoroughly uninterested in going along with this and were trying to avoid adding a mutiny to the situation? And yes, SK apparently has an explicit law that allows the legislation to overrule a declaration of martial law, which is the kind of law you donā€™t get unless youā€™ve had several occasions to think about it.

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      Didnā€™t they at least try to block parliament with buses or something? (A thing easily circumvented with the parliamentarians going ā€˜whereever enough of us gather is parliament, the building has no magical qualitiesā€™