Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of 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.

  • David GerardMA
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    145 months ago

    me talking to someone after describing a dumb and horrible LW thing:

    i feel like i’m describing a livejournal fanfic cult, which i guess i am

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      145 months ago

      one of the worse things about LW is that even just explaining their beliefs to uninvolved people makes you look like a complete weirdo

      • @froztbyte
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        105 months ago

        I’ve (irl) met a “part-time” LW reader and tried to have a conversation about some of the shit, and … same experience

        just utterly had no ability to even receive the information about the longstanding sexual abuse or statements of yud being a charisma-for-nerds grifter

        (had an earlier conversation with ‘em some many months prior calling out many of issues in coiner world after they’d gone laser-eyes having read the bitcoin paper, and they eventually got their head out of their ass, so…. I’m hopeful it’s not all lost yet)

    • @saucerwizard
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      105 months ago

      Well the FFVII house was kinda like a rationalist grouphouse…

    • deborah
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      95 months ago

      as a former member of multiple livejournal fanfic circlejerks, I am so sad that LW didn’t join the rest of LJ in (1) getting off or (2) being mean on fandom_wank, and instead decided to create the torment nexus.

      • David GerardMA
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        65 months ago

        i expect dreamwidth took one look and Denise got out the flamethrower

        • deborah
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          65 months ago

          hahaha no failfandomanon is extremely at Dreamwidth, but I think the wankiest people mostly moved to other places in recent years.