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)

  • @saucerwizard
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    821 days ago

    Has ESR always been antigay or is the latest ‘gays=pedo” spiel new?

    • @o7___o7
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      New for him, I’d wager, but I think ESR is treading a well-worn path: i.e. a huge weirdo gets himself in trouble but then finds favor with terrible people, and ultimately suffers from audience capture.

      Edit: I was wrong, it’s not new (hat tip to @Soyweiser)

      • David GerardMA
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        719 days ago

        ESR went like this after 9/11

        • Mike Knell
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          @dgerard @o7___o7 He was weird and creepy before that (see his attempts to make the Jargon File say that everyone in hackerdom was just like him), but yeah, hoo boy. Him and the LGF guy were prominent cheerleaders for Dick Cheney’s wilder fever dreams back in the day. The LGF guy got better, ESR didn’t.

          • Charlie Stross
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            @m @dgerard @o7___o7 @techtakes Back in 2007 I was a guest of honour at Penguicon. ESR was there and we got talking. As of 2007 he was all-in on all the insane “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and islamophobia. If you’d taken his word salad and substituted “jews” for “muslims” Julius Streicher would have hired him as a columnist in a split second. (That’s when I added ESR to my list of “people I will not share a platform with”.)

            He was somewhat less cray-cray in 2003.

            • Mike
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              919 days ago

              In the very late 90s - so only a year or two after the Good Friday Agreement - he gave a talk in Dublin. The only part I remember was when he went off on his tangent about access to guns being an essential component of a free society and then stood there wondering why he was suddenly being heckled.

      • @Amoeba_Girl
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        1221 days ago

        Racism is insane; it fixates on superficial characteristics like skin color rather than important ones like IQ and time preference.

        I’m sorry, “time preference”? Is this piece of shit referring to Colored People’s Time as a scientific concept or am I missing something?

        This is such a cursed tweet ughhhhh

        • @V0ldek
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          720 days ago

          referring to Colored People’s Time

          to the what now? What cursed horror beyond my comprehension am I going to learn today?

          • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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            920 days ago

            “Black people are late sometimes” but in a racist way instead of a “Repent, Harlequin” kind of way.

            • @V0ldek
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              820 days ago

              White people are late sometimes too…?

              • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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                419 days ago

                It goes back to the old “steppin fetchit” racist charicature of the lazy black man, usually either enslaved or formerly enslaved depending on when we’re talking.

          • @swlabr
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            I recommend looking it up. I believe it’s a term that has been reclaimed by Black people. Obama referenced it as CPT (in response to some other event) in his 2016 WHC dinner speech.

            • @V0ldek
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              1019 days ago

              I hope at least CPT does not have daylight’s savings

        • @Soyweiser
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          I think that is a reference to the ‘eat 1 cookie now or wait, and get 2 cookies’ childrens thing. Racists refer to it often. (This also means the black eat the 1 cookie kids can’t build empires bla bla bla).

          (when I search for the term on youtube, it instantly gave me a video linking it to cultural degeneracy for example. Really annoying you can’t block channels properly. Also the mises institute has a video on it)

          • @Amoeba_Girl
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            1120 days ago

            Oh cool it’s even worse then!

            • @Amoeba_Girl
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              1220 days ago

              (This particular study, if there even is a real study, is infuriating because what it’s really measuring is how much you trust a figure of authority to keep their promise. I wonder why black kids would have issues with this!)

              • @Amoeba_Girl
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                1320 days ago

                Study finds greedy white children would rather have two fictitious cookies than one real one they can eat.

                • @bitofhope
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                  1220 days ago

                  One weird trick explains venture capital!

              • @Soyweiser
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                1020 days ago

                Poor hungry kids also more likely to want to eat now than later. Big shocks, clearly this must mean the poor are deficient in some genetic way.

        • @swlabr
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          919 days ago

          racism is insane

          …ok…

          introducing racism 2

          Oh I see

          • @o7___o7
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            The plot of Seveneves, but worse.