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)

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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      I mean, if there exists sufficiently motivated opposition Iā€™m given to understand that guns and improvised explosives arenā€™t broadly limited by cost. The fact that the market is failing to correct (or more accurately, the human costs arenā€™t impacting the finances) might end up being further motivation for more kinetic action.

      I sincerely hope Iā€™m wrong about this line of thought.

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        3 hours ago

        well, people have been making these things for hundreds of years by now, but there are some other restrictions, some of which are cultural

      • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOP
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        3 hours ago

        I sincerely hope Iā€™m wrong about this line of thought.

        If the tech industry is implicated in Trumpā€™s election in any way, I suspect youā€™ll be proven right.

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          I mean, I donā€™t think that thereā€™s the same kind of preexisting social/political/economic infrastructure to support that kind of terrorism on the left as the militia movement on the right, which I think is going to be what prevents things from devolving into outright violence.

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            imo the most important part of that infrastructure is mass surveillance