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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

  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
    13Ā·
    10 hours ago

    Slate says: ā€œFor the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple!ā€

    The Collinses are ineffective, abusive industry plants from Peter Thielā€™s extended circle. They know theyā€™re entirely media creations. They play off that fact to ensure that journalists never follow up on how many initiatives theyā€™ve started and abandoned, neglect to interrogate their contradictory stances on issues like abortion and ā€œrace science,ā€ and even seem to accept that theyā€™re openly being taken for a ride by these dorks. Yet in spite of it all, no one listens to their podcast, they donā€™t really have much of a following, and their specific appeal is concentrated to a few far-right circuits.

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      4Ā·
      1 hour ago

      Dear acausal robot God, that was cathartic. Refreshing to see a mainstream journalist see through techbro weirdo uwu smol bean antics for what they are, especially after so many credulous puff pieces.

      This includes the Guardian (twice), the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, CBC News, Business Insider, Bloomberg, and Dallas Magazine, among many, many others. My industry peers very clearly want me to know about these peopleā€”a lot about them!

      I knew that a couple of outlets had done profiles of them lately, but I didnā€™t realize they were attention whoring this hard. Maybe their thing isnā€™t a breeding kink after all, but exhibitionism.

      I also didnā€™t know about the child abuse, though I could have seen it coming without subjecting myself to two Grauniad bits on these fuckers1.

      And then thereā€™s the slap. The most notable aspect of the Guardianā€™s May 2024 profileā€”which, again, profiled them twice in the same yearā€”was a moment when Malcolm slaps his son in the face, in public, after the then-2-year-old accidentally bumped into a table, leaving the boy ā€œwhimpering.ā€ To her credit, reporter Jenny Kleeman didnā€™t let this go, forcing the couple to defend this punishment.

      1: Donā€™t even know if ā€œfuckerā€ is appropriate here given these bougie failchildren are apparently opting for IVF for the actual baby making part.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        4Ā·
        5 hours ago

        Fun fact, I looked at that article. And my monitor exploded. No joke. I was in sudden darkness, and the mains were turned off. Pc survived thankfully, and I have a secondary monitor but lol wtf. (I need to go to bed).