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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.

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    (Iā€™ll try put a decent summary of links on this later)

    thereā€™s a UK party that (aiui) committed electoral crimes by submitting non-existing genML-created people as candidates, a whole new usecase!

    gonna be real fun to see that catching sunlight, if TNI manages to do due process right

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      what a coincidence, ā€œaiuiā€ is the sound I make when I get caught doing electoral crimes.

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      If you want more crazy, that political party is actually a limited company in which the leader is also the majority shareholder and the bylaws permit him to fire and appoint a majority of directors at will. Iā€™m not sold on whether all those candidates were actually fake, but journalists from more credible outlets than Byline Times are no doubt working on physically tracking down every one off these candidates as we speak to verify their existence or otherwise.

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      guardian story

      one guy whose pic looks like a fucking Auton actually got in touch with the Grauniad and showed them the original of his ridiculously yassified campaign photo

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        it continues to do my head in that I vacillate on whether thereā€™s more insane politics shit for yā€™all in TNI, or in what we have here in ZA

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          There was a new government elected last week on a platform which can be broadly summarised as ā€œno more insane politics shitā€. So far theyā€™re showing dangerous signs of competence and rational thought. What a load of weirdos.