Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems
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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 [https://awful.systems/post/1162442].)

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.)

    • YourNetworkIsHauntedEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      Is there any rundown on this backstory for people who missed it happening live over the last few years that doesn’t get sidetracked into theological disputes with the murder cult?

      • blakestaceyOPAEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        I would appreciate this too, frankly. The rabbit hole is deep, and full of wankers.

    • SoyweiserEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Related to the other killing by the border patrol people, Chad Loder noticed the reports on the shooting have some strange wording which might imply the cop shot was hit by another cop. (Assuming this is the same shooting).

      • saucerwizardEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Had not considered the meth angle. Would explain a lot.

        Wasn’t much ammo either.

        • SoyweiserEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          Wasn’t much ammo either.

          I’m just sitting here with a bit of European culture shock.

          • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            it seems like common commercial box size for this caliber is 50, and some were likely already used for practice. soviet pistol ammo for army used to come in cans (“spam cans”), 1200+ per

          • saucerwizardEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            Sometimes I forget these things.

            Same thing with trucks I imagine.

    • Amoeba_GirlEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      aw man first he gets attacked during a perfectly polite threat of eviction, now this?

      “A big part of this problem was this moratorium on rent, COVID. People took advantage of it,” Carl Lind said.

      rest in peace little angel.

      It’s a pity there are no Journalists left in America because 50 years ago this would be a Hot Scoop and eventually there’d be a movie about it

      god st rev you’re such a dumb bitch