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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.

  • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
    12Ā·
    9 months ago

    Guy who was previously featured here for championing the merits of dropping the n-word when meeting new (white) people in order to judge them worthy had an extensive twitter rant about how scott alexander may be an actual prophet, while quote-twitting another similarly afflicted person.

    If you bother, which I barely did, this is what youā€™re in for:

    Trace says Scott has given up his will to power. but itā€™s not a giveaway, itā€™s a trade: if you donā€™t seek power you retain the ability to seek unpolluted truth. hereā€™s this tradeoff explained by Curtis Yarvin, another reluctant prophet, whom Scott has definitely read:

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    • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
      7Ā·
      9 months ago

      Man I do NOT fuck with TracingWoodgrains. I assume that most of the people who interact with Hannania - and his ilk of wordy r9k robots and reply guys - is a a crypto-reactionary. But I think Tracey just really really likes tweeting and culture war fence straddling? Somehow itā€™s still obnoxious.

      Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our dayā€”compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics.

      An assessment of a writerā€™s skill, with no regards to prose. This is what happens when the only text you consume come from techie microbloggers