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.

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    glancing at their profile, they have ā€œwhat if I were king thoā€, something that claims to focus on ā€œsensitive use of languageā€ (it links to ā€œwokismā€)

    oh and to really add that flavour, they have this at the very top of their profile:

    As of 26 Jul 2024, I have a new plan to get a job in 2025, a new plan to save democracy from itself, ā€¦, and ā€¦. And it all started on Wikipedia.

    Applications of genetics, such as exploring ethical boundaries related to Eugenicsā€¦ and maybe someday doing it right.

    just a real winner of a human being that everyone would definitely want to be around

    (e: jesus fuck I just looked at that political party too. wat.)

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      Dude came up with an unofficial wikipedia article naming dispute resolution process, used it on a single article, saw the mostly negative feedbackā€¦

      And thought ā€œyou know what. I should build a political party around this and get Elon Musk on boardā€.

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        A new plan to save America!

        17 followers.

        To paraphrase Jenny Nicholson: Nobodyā€™s watching your revolution except sneerclub, and weā€™re only watching it as performance art.

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          Even fewer people are watching it because Xshitter has gone hard into ā€œdonā€™t show any content on the site if youā€™re not logged inā€. Get a fucking website, dude. And not your blog, last updated in 2015.