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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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    me talking to someone after describing a dumb and horrible LW thing:

    i feel like iā€™m describing a livejournal fanfic cult, which i guess i am

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      one of the worse things about LW is that even just explaining their beliefs to uninvolved people makes you look like a complete weirdo

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        Iā€™ve (irl) met a ā€œpart-timeā€ LW reader and tried to have a conversation about some of the shit, and ā€¦ same experience

        just utterly had no ability to even receive the information about the longstanding sexual abuse or statements of yud being a charisma-for-nerds grifter

        (had an earlier conversation with ā€˜em some many months prior calling out many of issues in coiner world after theyā€™d gone laser-eyes having read the bitcoin paper, and they eventually got their head out of their ass, soā€¦. Iā€™m hopeful itā€™s not all lost yet)

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      as a former member of multiple livejournal fanfic circlejerks, I am so sad that LW didnā€™t join the rest of LJ in (1) getting off or (2) being mean on fandom_wank, and instead decided to create the torment nexus.

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          hahaha no failfandomanon is extremely at Dreamwidth, but I think the wankiest people mostly moved to other places in recent years.