Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


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Wow, the whole thing is indefensibly capital-W wrong, just an utterly weird rose-tinted view of the current corporate experience.
Cory, baby, my dogg, sure āenshittificationā was a big hit, but you canāt expect that your rough-draft followups are automatically gold
This is like reading Yud mumbling about āShoggothsā. Itās giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb.
Man, due to a weird alignment of the spheres I started reading those Honor Levy excerpts in the voice of Max Payne-style hardboiled narration and it fits weirdly well? Like a bargain version of the same sort of mid-budget semi-affectionate parody of existential angst thatās all tone and minimal substance.
I am retrospectively disturbed by how well āI really came in a fluffer that timeā slots into Dorothy Parkerās flow.
I mean she was undoubtedly too much of a lefty for the Thiel set to ever admit her influence, but I feel like thatās the exact type of vibe sheās trying and mostly failing to evoke.