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)

    • @o7___o7
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      I wish I was cool enough to have the world’s worst people get so mad at me that they…make fan art and put it up on their website. What’s Elon going for here?

      If their aim is to make DG look bad ass, they’re doing a good job.

      • @selfA
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        175 months ago

        david gerard refuses to respond to my allegations that he wears an awesome trenchcoat and uses magic to trap his opponents in a realm where everything is made of the pages of a failed novela, and I think that says a lot

        • David GerardMA
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          155 months ago

          no no, that one i totally did and i’ll fuckin do it again

      • @swlabr
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        125 months ago

        Anti David Gerard David Gerard Club

    • @bitofhope
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      115 months ago

      “I want to speak to the manager” energy.

    • @selfA
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      115 months ago

      oh boy it’s gonna be funny/painful to see musk’s biggest fans try to litigate this on Wikipedia with all the banal nothing and weird stalking that trace’s article consists of

      • David GerardMA
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        trace is on a quillette podcast about it too, prob where Musk got it

        no new outbreak on Wikipedia itself

        • @sc_griffith
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          135 months ago

          my condolences on the likely death threats. I’ve been there before and it sucks

          • David GerardMA
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            135 months ago

            so far it’s two (2) idiots on X the everything app

            lol

            • @V0ldek
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              95 months ago

              It’s all happening on X the death threats app

              • David GerardMA
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                75 months ago

                well so far it’s the whiny little chuds app

                though today’s was the Nigerian crypto guy who was angry I’d apparently deleted several of his articles

    • @Soyweiser
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      115 months ago

      Only now? It is amazing how disconnected Musk is from that part of SV culture. Amazing, even sucks at the thing he should have a home field advantage at.

      • Sailor Sega Saturn
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        I had a mini identity crisis when i realized I’m more aware of techno-fascist writing than Elon Musk of all people.

        • @V0ldek
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          105 months ago

          If Elon had any self-awareness he wouldn’t be Elon

      • @istewart
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        45 months ago

        Maybe not super amazing, he probably avoids/firewalls out most of these people because they’d constantly be hitting him up for money