Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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 cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Scott Aaronson: āOpen Letter to Anti-Zionists on Twitterā
Posting here rather than in a separate thread because Iām probably the only one who rememembers him from the old /r/sneerclub days, but heās an endlessly fascinating figure to me - his ability to view literally every possible scenario through the lens of āpoor innocent little smol-bean Scott just wants to discuss things rationally, but is persecuted by his ontologically evil foes and their self-righteous dupesā - doesnāt matter if itās feminists objecting to his older incel-y posts, Sneer Club dunking on him, cops arresting him for stealing from an airport store or leftists not being fans of the genocide he supportsā¦ He must always be the victim. His enemies must always be unreasonable and motivated by hatred of him, specifically.
looks like he did a shit job in this area https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Whatās he referring to when he says heās most famous for something about confronting radical feminists with his personal issues?
my god, you missed out on that?
here is way too much background reading!
Donāt forget how Arthur Chu wrote a response grounded in empathy, and Aaronson decided that Chu wants him dead. Really.
just looked the guy up. Heās handsome. He literally looks like Jerry Seinfeld (actually, he looks even more like Pablo Schreiber who played Nicky Sobotka in The Wire). What a god damned twat. (Not that being attractive makes any of his arguments any worse than they already are)
He managed to attract and keep a wife and have kids with her and still talks like the most rancid incel.
The title of the blog (āShtetl-Optimizedā) refers to his belief that he would have been happier in a traditional shtetl where the kindly village elders would assign a wife for him.
Yeah that always gets me, and he picked that name fully knowing what it meant. It isnāt like the meaning of it has changed over time. (Like my now unfortunate nickname, which prob gets me tagged nowadays as a rightwinger, due to the weird shit they had with budweiser, and before that it got me tagged at a rabid leftwinger because of āsoyā. Nevermind that it predates all that, and even the bodybuilders/weightlifters misreading the science and causing the whole anti-soy mania, and it is just a reference to 90ās shadowrun. I feel this a lot and then I ignore it because I figure most people are not this online to even notice).
Holy shit you just sent me down a rabbit hole. How can these people be so terrible. Existing in their spaces must be like constantly smelling faintly a rotting corpse but not being able to quite place where itās coming from.
Not just that, but one of very few feminist commenters in an aggressively anti-feminist comments section on a blogpost about how itās wrong that MIT pulled Walter Lewinās online lecture videos after he was accused of sexually harrassing a student. Scott Aaronson, Friend To All Women, felt no need to intervene as his fans trashed the very notion of online sexual harrassment - only when a woman made an uncharitable remark about nerd men.