Feel like you want to sneer about something but you don’t quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!
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 cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota here and the bar really isn’t that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
That’s how she’s got a lot of people’s respect, with them being unaware of the other shit. There’s some history going way back to OWS, recommendations that people read Moldbug, and other off-colour shit. I don’t have a link handy immediately but it shouldn’t be too hard to find
https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis
https://www.thedailybeast.com/occupying-the-throne-justine-tunney-neoreactionaries-and-the-new-1
Fuck, that’s disappointing. I remember being quite impressed with her “a truly universal binary execution format” blog post detailing a way to compile c code into a sort of self-executing portable archive (unless I’m mixing things up - she is the person running justine.lol, is she not?).
Thanks for sharing those articles.
oh she’s very good technically! also a Nazi