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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)

  • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
    6Ā·
    12 days ago

    Also, not that itā€™s the point but I have to note that technically most election victories are decisive, in the sense that they resolve the winner with little to no ambiguity (which is usually the case, even when the margin is narrow). In that sense, the only way Trumpā€™s victory is not decisive is if you contest the legitimacy of the whole election.

    This is such pedantry that you might as well say ā€œthe Merriam-Webster dictionary defines decisive asā€¦ā€

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
      11Ā·
      12 days ago

      considering trump has spent the last four years pretending he won the previous election I actually do wonder if part of the subtext is ā€œwe acknowledge you won for real realsies and we cannot talk shit about you as a fake presidentā€

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      9Ā·
      12 days ago

      Yea I know, had to get that digression out of my system, especially since you said ā€œin any sensible meaning of the wordā€ and all. Sorry, I didnā€™t mean to nuh-uh you on semantics, just point out something that tickled my pedantry sense.

      Edit: I also brought it up because IMO ā€œdecisiveā€ is a bit of an odd choice to describe election victory, unless referring to some grander context where the election marks a major historical turning point in national or international politics in favor of the winning side.