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The post Xitter web has spawned so 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. A lot of people didnā€™t survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my accountā€™s cake day, too, so thatā€™s cool.)

  • macroplastic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15Ā·
    vor 2 Monaten

    Enjoyed this piece from Mission Local on San Franciscoā€™s ā€œMarch for Billionairesā€ yesterday.

    Choice excerpts:

    Despite the San Francisco locale, a participant said the event had ā€œgrassrootsā€ origins at a ā€œlittle rationalist restaurant get togetherā€ in a ā€œgroup houseā€ on Shattuck Avenue, subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies.

    Mission Local contributor Benjamin Wachs coined a term for an event in which media observers outnumber participants: a panopticonference. This was close to that. Those in attendance did their best to field questions from the barrage of journalists that backed them into a tree.

    This is where Annie, a young transgender woman who attended the protest in a T-shirt that said ā€œIā€™m in a polycule with Aella,ā€ first met Kauffman. An impromptu debate ensued, with Annie ā€œaggressively defending billionaires.ā€ It was, participants concluded, worthy of a larger forum.

    ā€œPeople are just jealous that they are poorer and weaker and uglier,ā€ she said. ā€œWe are beautiful. Weā€™re smart. Weā€™re strongā€¦ We are supporting the billionaires, here.ā€

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      12Ā·
      vor 2 Monaten

      ā€œPeople are just jealous that they are poorer and weaker and uglier,ā€

      Remember when Rationalists pretended to care about truth, steelmanning, ideological turning tests etc.

      (Also implying that billionaires are strong and attractive is funny)

      subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies

      Yall still are radical hippies. Some hippies just love the boot.

      California is, I believe, the only state to give health insurance to people who come into the country illegally,ā€ Kauffman said nervously. ā€œI think we probably should not be providing that.

      Rationalism, the empathy removal training center.

      ā€œIt is the intention of journalists to lie, which is why we need to not do anything to the journalists themselves, but we need to simply remove them as a class,ā€ Annie said. ā€œJust like Germany does to the extremist organizations.ā€

      Well, Germany certainly did excel at removing classes of people from society

      lol.

      Her political awakening, she added, was watching the press ā€œconstantly pump out obviously fake informationā€ against Trump during the 2016 election instead of reporting on the ā€œactual abhorrent views he holds.ā€

      Converted by Scott. (That ā€˜people are saying I was wrong but actually I was rightā€™ disclaimer aged worse than the post).

      • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
        5Ā·
        vor 2 Monaten

        from bsky photos looks like entire gathering was 30 people. t h i r t y p e o p l e i might have counted some reporter or someone passing by randomly by accident