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)

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    The coupleā€™s long conversations about transgender people havenā€™t gotten as much attention, with just 2,500 views on a video in which they ā€œexplore the fine line between genuine gender dysphoria and the allure of a ā€˜trans cultā€™ that may lead non-trans individuals to make life-altering decisions.ā€

    Oh boy an hour long video about how the trans are transing eachother as part of a trans cult!

    But why arenā€™t they concerned about kids being tricked into the life altering decision of being an ā€œanti-wokeā€ podcaster? šŸ¤”

    Edit ā€“ made it through most of that video (how??) and itā€™s a bunch of reaching and fear mongering while trying to sound like principled conservatives. The funniest part was probably them blaming anime avatars for trans people.

    Edit ā€“ just kidding the funniest part was the guy calling trans people the ā€œpriest classā€ of urbanism. Worship me and I shall bless you with seperated bicycle lanes and bountiful farmers markets!

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      The funniest part was probably them blaming anime avatars for trans people.

      holy fuck, Iā€™ve seen anti-trans accounts on mastodon spew this same shit and Iā€™m kind of surprised itā€™s a wider conservative conspiracy theory and not something local to mastodon

      just kidding the funniest part was the guy calling trans people the ā€œpriest classā€ of urbanism

      leftists donā€™t go to church on Sundays, they just trans themselves and then bikeshed about bike sheds

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        holy fuck, Iā€™ve seen anti-trans accounts on mastodon spew this same shit and Iā€™m kind of surprised itā€™s a wider conservative conspiracy theory and not something local to mastodon

        I think Blanchard started with this one. If you needed more proof the guy is an absolute case of brain worms. (E: Here is the source)

        E: I wonder what caused the sudden public appearance of more trans people, anime? Or the change in laws about a decade ago where most of the western world stopped sterilizing and going after trans people. (it is nuts that the terfs never bring this up, so worried about trans healthcare perhaps causing some permanent changes while ignoring that very recently that sterilization was mandatory in most of the western world (A law in .nl between 1985 and 2014 for example). Fucking assholes.)