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.

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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

    • @Soyweiser
      link
      English
      4
      edit-2
      3 hours ago

      Don’t drink and tweet people.

      E: my reaction to the people saying ‘it is bait’

    • @BlueMonday1984
      link
      English
      4
      edit-2
      3 hours ago

      Update: The QRTs are mainly sneering, but this one’s particularly good

      EDIT: Against my better judgment, I’m letting another sidenote come out:

      If you wanna encourage people to drop the master/slave naming scheme, this guy probably gave you a good bit of ammo. Changing a random naming scheme is a pretty low-priority task under most circumstances, but it gets a lot more tempting when it lets you distance yourself from people like this

    • @gerikson
      link
      English
      38 hours ago

      Dude is about 3 years too late but I guess it’s always 8 o’clock in the outrage store.

      For reference, HN went wild on this submission from a pretty obvious 4chan troll (the self-described “Black developer” just so happened to include references to a Stormfront post (since removed)):

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487854

    • @froztbyteOP
      link
      English
      29 hours ago

      just imagine the kinda thinking that goes into even “I can make this post for fun, that’ll be a gas”