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 you’ll near-instantly regret.
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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.
Just found out from a screenshot in a tweet that Marc Aandreesen considers Nick Land to be some kind of patron saint of “techno-optimism”. Setting aside Land’s ugly views about everything… I didn’t think optimism was what he was known for. More like grasping, desperate, disgusted embrace of the onward march of capital.
His thing is literally called DARK ENLIGHTENMENT, fucking Final Fantasy villain level of grandiose menacing naming, how on earth would that be “optimism”.
Marcee do you even like know who your idols are?
“Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.” - Nick Land.
The Pinhead we have at home.