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.)

  • V0ldek@awful.systems
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    Sir, this is a Wendyā€™s, also

    There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past.

    did you get sucked up your ass so deep you forgot whoā€™s on the reactionary side?

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      Depends on your perspective I guess, like if you imagine there are really ā€˜we should destroy the internet and go back to the imaginary golden age before the internetā€™ people those would be reactionary on that subject. I have never seen anybody honestly like that however.

      On his reactionary side: I donā€™t get how his allies, he can stand them. I mean he must know they will come after him next. We know what they think of lgbt people.

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        i think itā€™s reasonable to say that his influence campaigns and wealth will keep him safe for at least some time. guilty until proven rich and all that

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        I mean he must know they will come after him next

        big piles of money, and all the power bases heā€™s accrued

        thereā€™s long precedent of collaborators who were instrumental in the projects of harm and suppression still being able to flourish throughout selfsame projects