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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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    Itā€™s Jonathan Ladd saying,

    Scott Alexander, the most influential figure in the online rationalist movement, wrote a review praising white supremacist Richard Hananiaā€™s book The Origins Of Woke in 2024.

    Yesterday, he congratulated Hanania on the Trump admin adopting the recommendations.

    With a link to Scott Adderallā€™s blog.

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      Should be noted that itā€™s mutual, Hanania has gone to great lengths to suck up to siskind, going back to at least the designer mouth bacteria thing.

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      Whelp, I made the mistake of following the link and am now just uselessly angry. Hereā€™s a link to the excellent If Books Could Kill episode on this bullshit, in case anyone else made the same mistake and also needs a palate cleanser.

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      Thanks, should have checked if it was readable to the rest of the world. That is what I get for beign lazy and not typing out a full post.