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.

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        Thanks for posting this. I live in Sweden and many of these actors are new to me.

        FWIW we have our own word for people who try to hijack the judicial system with spurious lawsuits etc: rƤttshaverist (ā€œjustice wreckerā€). I donā€™t believe the Roman/German law system really meshes well with the SovCit movement in common law systems, but Iā€™m sure people are trying to apply it.

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        I really canā€™t imagine reading a book by someone whose vision of the future is ā€œmen will be taller and have more muscles, women will stay the same height but theyā€™ll all be conventionally attractive and have voluntary control of their uterusā€.

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          Babel-17 came out in 1966, and its vision of the future was that a good shipā€™s captain knows how to complete a poly triad and you canā€™t leave Earth without a full crew including three ghosts and a furry.

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            Now thatā€™s the kind of stuff that makes puppies sadā€¦

            (New wave SF is a bit of a blind spot for me. Never really read any Delany, even though his autobio is one the best Iā€™ve read)