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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last weekā€™s thread a different way this time)

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    LOL @ North Korea being ā€œwokeā€. If they are, why are they assisting Russia, the Rightā€™s Great White Hope, in a war against a country that these people also denigrate as ā€œwokeā€? But hey, never let facts or logic get in the way of a good grift.

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      I mean, with how young she is thereā€™s absolutely no credibility she can offer on how a country becomes like the ā€œDā€ā€œPā€"R"K. But I can see the superficial similarities between the right-wing griftoverseā€™s depiction of cancel culture and the kind of cultural authority that gets exercised. That Bogeyman is why they use that fanciful description, after all. I can see how easily she could get radicalized from there, not that it justified any of the lies sheā€™s believed and passed on or invented outright.

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        And right now South Koreaā€™s president has declared martial law and banned all political activity, I guess sheā€™ll be just fine with that.

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          Martial law and free speech restrictions are only bad if the bad guys do it, also we get to decide who the bad guys are

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          Yeah, i wonder how laughably terribad takes she will try to spin for her grifting gig out of this situstion

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            I was curious so looked her up. I discovered that there is no rule of law in Chicago and you can just murder people in the streets. And unrelated she did a colab with Gad Saad about her failing dating in the USA or something. Didnā€™t watch the vid, just saw she had a few vids with Saad. (Vids from a year ago which almost nobody watched 35k/15k views. Sad!). On her twitter she has said nothing about SK, but apparently is upset about cancel culture and DEI. The grift is strong with this one.