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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    Surely his reading comprehension isnā€™t actually this bad, and he only got a bad meme-cliffnotes version of the radio-series/books/movies!?!

    Ow boy do I have some stories for you about his takeaways from other media he consumed. For example, and a worse take.

    (There was also a take which I remember where he mentioned that in the Culture humans are basically pets of the AIs (which is mentioned in the books yes, but only by the people who are anti/sceptical of The Culture, The Culture itself makes it pretty clear they are not pets. (In the last book they even seem to fulfill some more vital role in keeping the AIs sane, and people have full autonomy in a way that pets never do)). Couldnā€™t find this take sadly. As everything is now about the Haitian pets thing (erugh, racist shits), and also this ā€˜humans are petsā€™ thing is an not uncommon misreading of people reading the culture novels).

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      ā€œutopian anarchistā€ I assume means ā€œit would be nice in theoryā€.

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        Nah, his ego is big enough that heā€™s probably some version of the an-cap, with a personal political based in ā€œI could give everyone this utopian world if the government and the ā€˜woke mobā€™ and the labor organizers would just get out of my way.ā€

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      fucking hell how are Muskā€™s Banks takes even worse than I remember? that was the point where I realized I hated the fucker so youā€™d think thereā€™d be nothing left to feel rage over but no, Musk corpsefucking Iainā€™s memory once he was too dead to tell Musk to go fuck himself is absolutely doing it