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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
itās not exactly a take, but i want to shout out the dilberito, one of the dumbest products ever created
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Other
Not gonna lie, reading through the wiki article and thinking back to some of the Elbonia jokes makes it pretty clear that he always sucked as a person, which is a disappointing realization. I had hoped that he had just gone off the deep end during COVID like so many others, but the bullshit was always there, just less obvious when situated amongst all the bullshit of corporate office life he was mocking.
I read his comics in middle school, and in hindsight even a lot of his older comics seems crueler and uglier. Like Aliceās anger isnāt a legitimate response to the bullshit work environment she has but just haha angry woman funny.
Also, the Dilbert Future had some bizarre stuff at the end, like Deepak Chopra manifestation quantum woo, so it makes sense in hindsight he went down the alt-right manosphere pipeline.
Itās the exact same syndrome as Yarvin. The guy in the middle- to low-end of the corporate hierarchy ā who, crucially, still believes in a rigid hierarchy! has just failed to advance in this one because reasons! ā but got a lucky enough break to go full-time as an edgy, cynical outsider ātruth-teller.ā
Both of these guys had at some point realized, and to some degree accepted, that they were never going to manage a leadership position in a large organization. And probably also accepted that they were misanthropic enough that they didnāt really want that anyway. Iāve been reading through JoJoās Bizarre Adventure, and these types of dude might best be described by the guiding philosophy of the cowboy villain Hol Horse: āWhy be #1 when you can be #2?ā
If COVID made you a bad person ā it didnāt, you were always bad and just needed a gentle push.
Like unless something really traumatic happened ā a family member died, you were a frontline worker and broke from stress ā then no, Iām sorry, a financially secure white guy going apeshit from COVID is not a turn, itās just a mask-off moment
@sansruse @V0ldek You left out the best part! š
Adams himself noted, ā[t]he mineral fortification was hard to disguise, and because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.ā[63] The New York Times noted the burrito ācould have been designed only by a food technologist or by someone who eats lunch without much thought to tasteā.[64]
Jesus christ thatās a murder
@V0ldek @sansruse Iāve eaten a dilburrito andā¦ thatās accurate. Then again, I am the type of weirdo who would seriously try nutripaste.
@sansruse My jaw genuinely dropped
@sansruse @V0ldek honestly, in the list of dumb products, this is mid-tier. surely at least the juicero is dumber? literally a device that you can replace with your own hands.
i mean, obviously the dilberito is daft. but itās a high bar.
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