Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • @saucerwizard
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    52 months ago

    Does anyone know if the L5 Society ever got weird and racist back in the day?

    • David GerardOPMA
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      52 months ago

      looks like not that i could find smoking guns of, but i was surprised to see the Heritage Foundation pop up as a supported (specifically to advocate the “High Frontier”, I would presume in the interest of defense spending)

      • @saucerwizard
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        62 months ago

        I think Jerry Pournelle was involved in that.

        • David GerardOPMA
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          52 months ago

          sure was! Him and the other ardent SF-Industrial-Complex guys

          • @gerikson
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            62 months ago

            I must cop to reading Pournelle’s Chaos Manor column voluntarily. I was very young.