(I get the feeling we’re close to this bubble’s end.)
Anyways, 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 soo 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.)
Words fail me. A few CFAR people had contacts in Czechia and Germany but most of these people can’t dare to explore exotic subcultures in their own city, and race pseudoscience is central to their culture.
I think there’s an inbuilt unexamined assumption that they are automatically part of a cosmopolitan elite, thanks to their paths through early life, and they are now transcending beyond that. Standing on the shoulders of David Brooks, perhaps
Old: Taco Tuesday
Bold: Savage Saturday
At best, I think “cosmopolitan” means “wants to stay at a Hilton on three continents, and gets off to Japanese and American porn.”
Someone diagnosed the Post-Rationalists as bring resentful that their educations and class backgrounds did not bring them the wealth, power, and status they felt they deserved.