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)

  • @Amoeba_Girl
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    122 months 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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      72 months 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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        92 months ago

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

        • @V0ldek
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          82 months ago

          White people are late sometimes too…?

          • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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            42 months 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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        2 months ago

        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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          102 months ago

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

    • @Soyweiser
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      2 months ago

      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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        112 months ago

        Oh cool it’s even worse then!

        • @Amoeba_Girl
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          122 months 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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            132 months ago

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

            • @bitofhope
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              122 months ago

              One weird trick explains venture capital!

          • @Soyweiser
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            102 months 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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      92 months ago

      racism is insane

      …ok…

      introducing racism 2

      Oh I see

      • @o7___o7
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        2 months ago

        The plot of Seveneves, but worse.