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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting 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.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      4 months ago

      the replies I can see in the archive are already a fucking disaster

      roko spewed the most nonsensical, fash-coded disapproval you could imagine:

      the map should reflect the territory, not the feelings

      that’s right roko, uh, maps don’t care about your feelings?

      oh god I clicked through to the rest of roko’s comments in that thread and it’s even worse, cw transphobia for anyone who peeks their head in

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I don’t want to hear that I’m irrational from Roko of all people haha.

        Dude sure spends a lot of energy on trans people and immigrants and wokeness for someone who thinks that climate change doesn’t matter because “by 2100 we will probably have disassembled Earth long with the rest of the solar system, and climate change will seem very quaint.”

        Also is his flirting with white supremacy new, or has he always been that fascist of a weirdo?

        • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Also is his flirting with white supremacy new, or has he always been that fascist of a weirdo?

          he’s always come off as deeply fascist to me, though it’s possible he’s gone even more mask-off with the white supremacy. I feel that roko’s personal style of saying the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard and claiming it’s brilliant has influenced the e/acc crowd a lot too, so maybe there’s some cross-pollination of ideas there.

          “by 2100 we will probably have disassembled Earth long with the rest of the solar system, and climate change will seem very quaint.”

          yes, roko, it’s pretty fucking obvious that climate change will seem quaint by 2100

          if it doesn’t fucking kill us way before then. that’s what makes it a fucking threat, roko, did your big ol mediocre brain miss that?