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.

Last weekā€™s thread

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

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    24 hours ago

    what in the absolute fuck

    ā€œyou shouldnā€™t do anything that works to resist fascismā€ is going to be the neoliberal siren call for 4+ years, isnā€™t it

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      23 hours ago

      It doesnā€™t even fit with the axioms of market logic! If the platform in question has terrible content moderation, primarily generates revenue from profoundly repulsive people, and was intentionally bought out to be used as the central propaganda organ for a destructive political movementā€¦ why wouldnā€™t you leave?! Dude just doesnā€™t want to admit heā€™s too lazy to redo his follows elsewhere

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      24 hours ago

      Unfortunately, the only way to change whatā€™s happening in an echo chamber may be to add your own noise.

      imagine writing something like this and considering yourself to be the adult in the room. just a big ol politics understander, writing and writing and none of it means a fucking thing. you get up every morning and somehow the dread doesnā€™t make you collapse back into bed.

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        10 hours ago

        I feel like we could solve a lot of the leftā€™s problems in the US by building a time machine and giving 13 year old Aaron Sorkin about 10 lbs of 2024 weed.

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      23 hours ago

      Liberals: vote for us, we are diet fascism, we are the lesser evil! We reduce harm!

      Itā€™s been the siren call for the last 400 years.