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 youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
RE: the recent discussion about Robert Heinlein and the origins of the word āgrokā, hereās an archive link about him:
TNR: A Famous Science Fiction Writerās Descent Into Libertarian Madness
UNSEE UNSEE
well
thatās going to be a fun fact to drop in the relevant niche circles
Scientology polycules with a Heinlein fetish?
thereās a friend of mine thatās ex-scientology. didnāt get in if their own choice, but that of family. they got out before it could really get its claws into āem
but the reason I bring this up is because itās from said friend that I learned of the fact that we have a Hubbard museum house in ZA. it looks like an episode of TNG fucked a vintage porn set, and itās preserved in that state
I donāt have friends of such tendencies
or, perhaps better stated, I am not aware that I have such friends. and sincerely hope to avoid learning that I do
(e: this comment came first, and is why the other came to mind)
If either of the parties involved were just about any other science fiction author, it would be the among the least damning things Iāve heard of the other one, but it just had to be these two.
and thatās twice in as many days that I have been doing a Lady Macbeth āout, out damn spotā routine with my entire central nervous system