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.

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

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      ā€œOh well, time to learn absolutely nothing from this and continue to be terrible people,ā€ said Grimes and Aella mentally, and unbeknownst to them, because they each have one brain cell quantum-entangled* with the otherā€™s, simultaneously

      *I finished the three body problem trilogy recently! Where do I sign up for the ETO

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      aww, look at the little collaborators trying to pretend they both got duped instead of both having been active and enthusiastic enablers

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      Iā€™d swear Iā€™ve seen that exact same ā€œrealizationā€ from Aella before, when she posted something like ā€œI got really into tradcath practices for [the writerā€™s barely disguised fetish] reasons, and now Iā€™m shocked that they really actually do hate sex work.ā€

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      ok what the FUCK is goin on with the neo-trads? I was just over here enjoying this free life, individualism, subversive, unwoke cultural movement and I thought everybody was on board but suddenly BAM weā€™ve got a a bunch of them spawning into sex-negative tradcaths or whatever [ā€¦] iā€™m just sad cause i thought this section of culture were my allies. we both were like ā€˜leave me alone, authoritarian government/cultureā€™, and were appropriately skeptical of novel identity movements, willing to say the weirdo things.

      https://xcancel.com/Aella_Girl/status/1630875718518456321#m