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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - gonna try posting last week’s thread a different way this time)

  • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    89 hours ago

    I really don’t know what was he thinking, looks like army did the bare legal minimum so that they won’t be prosecuted for refusing orders. There’s a couple of things that can be done with minimal number of loyalists that would make coup easier that weren’t done, like cutting power to parliament. This makes me guess that military didn’t want a part in this at all

    I’ve seen a take that this was an attempt to get entrenched in power before trump admin begins, as in for foreign relations purposes, but like, it’s pretty clear that a couple of people from his family and trusted party people were under investigation so him trying to not allow that sounds more likely. Now that won’t work because as far as i understand by the end of the week there will be impeachment vote

    • @Soyweiser
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      89 hours ago

      Didn’t they at least try to block parliament with buses or something? (A thing easily circumvented with the parliamentarians going ‘whereever enough of us gather is parliament, the building has no magical qualities’