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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    re: election results. unfortunately iā€™m not surprised or even disappointed by now. it makes me feel sad for my 2015 self and her naivete. she didnā€™t understand what a disgusting and evil culture she lived in

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      I donā€™t have too much coherent to say right now

      fuck the fascists for what theyā€™ve done and what they intend to do

      fuck the neoliberals for doing their best to convince marginalized people that they shouldnā€™t defend themselves against a terrible fate

      fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap theyā€™re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

      shitā€™s about to get very hard and very weird and I canā€™t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

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        what a surprise, the thread all the leftist shitposters on mastodon boosted about how youā€™re a class traitor if you donā€™t vote for the Green Party (who I donā€™t buy as socialist) or ā€œany other socialist partyā€ (fucking who??? am I supposed to write ā€œsocialismā€ on my ballot in crayon???) conveniently went missing

        anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonā€™s a shooting gallery tonight

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          i do love how the ā€œanti-imperialistā€ protest vote against harris was a choice between like three or four putin apologists. the state of the US left is really fucked up and i donā€™t want to look at it ever again.

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            i bet the self-described antiimperialists going all for Southern Lebanon Parking Lot 2024 feel real smug right now

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          Didnā€™t the Green Party woman also just go ā€˜Iā€™m pro Israelā€™ the day for the election or so? Which I think is one of the reason she might have picked up a few moves (the idea she might be more pro gaza I mean).

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          anyway post your favorite fuckhead accelerationist here, mastodonā€™s a shooting gallery tonight

          Iā€™ve intentionally been avoiding feeds the last few days because I just do not have the headspace for it, but I quickly checked on shit now

          and

          fuck

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        I canā€™t stress enough how important it is to be careful who you trust with your life

        strong agree

        minor upside: itā€™s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

        fucking fuck this sucks

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          minor upside: itā€™s going to be a good time to make lists of people who suddenly feel comfortable to mask off

          correct. keep receipts.

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      Yeah this is fucked up. I feel so bad for everybody (esp the Americans, but this will hurt the world). Shit this prob means I should start looking into seriously helping out locally when all this explodes into more international shit. (Which imho is the best you can do anyway, do things locally, build a bit of a support network for your community).

      (Note Iā€™m not American, but I think this will end badly, just the fucker stepping out of the paris accord for example, and all the weird blowhard fascists this will make feel emboldened to do more politics locally).

      E: I really hope the people who go ā€˜this is the same as in 2020, wait till all votes are countedā€™ are correct and not on hopeium.

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          I canā€™t tell, US elections have imho always been extremely dumb. (But, in the past decades+ ours have not been much better).

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            both by electoral college and by popular vote trump has advantage, and worse than that house and senate are republican now