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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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        @froztbyte I think @d4rkness is eliding a few steps that look clear to them, but theyā€™re basically right: eugenics is about all transhumanists can do *today*, a lot of transhumanism is warmed-over Technocracy (the Musk familyā€™s ideological wellspring), Technocracy was *def* on board with eugenics (and apartheid), so here we are: they aspire to more but eugenics is what they can do today so theyā€™re doing it.

        (Iā€™ve been studying transhumanism since roughly 1990 and thatā€™s my considered opinion.)

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          Iā€™d agree there, and it might be that thatā€™s what they meant, but as you say it still doesnā€™t leave the two things disconnected. didnā€™t see them heading in the direction of amusing debate, however!

          (Iā€™d wondered from your past writings how long youā€™d been looking into this shit, TIL the year!)

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        sorry, all the mental pretzels were taken up by the other poster a few days ago, youā€™ll have to contort your nonsense yourself. best avoid the history books though, theyā€™ll make it really hard for you to achieve what you want

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        type the words ā€œtranshumanism eugenicsā€ into ddg and see what comes up. but mostly just fuck off tbh