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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • corbinEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    Sometimes I feel inadequate. I was clumsy when burning Justin M. Keyes and, regardless of whatever trust was lost, I haven’t felt better even after a week of making fun of fascists. Maybe burning somebody else will help? I’d like to share my notes on Dan “Opcode” Jonsson, a relatively-unknown right-wing influencer, before he gets popular enough to have money. I think he’s spooked on Lobsters recently, but he’s been uploading to Youtube multiple times per week and there’s plenty to explore.

    If this is also too clumsy and leads to Jonsson deleting his YT channel: good, actually! It’s the only source of revenue that I can find for his opinions. So I’m not going to worry too much about it.

    click for notes
    • Daniel Jonsson
      • Unconfirmed, but lots of hints
      • Despite using Fedora, unhealthy amount of shilling for Omarchy
      • Reads a book purely because of a DHH recommendation 1
      • Lobsters
        • Appreciating DHH and PewDiePie 1
        • Apologizing for Omarchy with rhetorical exploration of definition of “distro” 1
      • YouTube
        • Right-wing guy in front of microphone opining about news headlines
          • Small fry: only about 1k subscribers currently
          • Recommended videos from a private window include Brodie Robertson, Jon Blow, Casey Muratori, Primeagen, Lex Friedman with guest DHH
            • So it seems that YT’s recommender thinks he’s part of the Standup podcast crew, ideologically
        • Tries out chatbot recommended by DHH 1
        • Defends DHH and Vaxry, supports Omarchy funding, calls Linux users “clowns” and “goblins”, complains about culture war and codes of conduct 1
        • Video defending The Quartering 1
        • Defends XLibre 1
          • Notably, says DEI is bad, says Trump is DEI, says Big Tech is bad and DEI
            • So, maybe not fascist, just stupid and prone to worshipping white supremacists? But that’s still a fascist
      • Mastodon: at DanOpcode at mastodon.social (deliberately breaking link because not sure whether Lemmy will ping Mastodon usernames)
        • Toot prominently features “88” in an image 1
          • Suggested alt text: “Approve sign in request [padlock with outline of person] Open your Authenticator app and approve the request. Enter the number if prompted. [box] 88”
          • On its own, just a dog-whistle; with the rest of the evidence, starting to sound like a Neo-Nazi
        • Will become monetized on YT after 1k subscribers 1
          • So… I guess he’s making money on YT now?
          • And he’s only sharing YT videos on Mastodon when they’re about relatively neutral tech topics; he uploads culture-war takes at least once per week but isn’t sharing them on Mastodon