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.
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 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
The sentences these people post, man.
Anyway, itās great that he chose a cryptofascist crank who tries to pass himself off as a communist to show how open minded he is. Damn, you respect Habsburg, Orban and Zizek, let me guess how you feel about Putin.
oh thank fuck Iām not the only one who knows about Zizek. thereās still so many people whose first introduction to leftist thought was The Pervertās Guide to Film on Netflix or whatever who never went back to check if Zizek was maybe a fucking asshole
Iām still blissfully clueless as to who zizek is
although saying that here now might cause an accidental crash course
I mean, my awareness extends as far as āpure sniff ideologyā and basically no context. Definitely heard some extremely bad takes on Ukraine though, which has quickly turned into my number one red flag for āactually pretty okay with Nazis when you get down to itā
EDIT: special thanks to skillissuer below for the correction re: Ukraine takes. Please trust his actual sources over my half-remembered reddit nonsense.
my bias against self-described hegelians is reinforced, bonus points for lacanism. every single one iāve heard of in some detail (not that iām looking for them) turns out to be a crank in some capacity. n=3
wait wdym as extremely bad takes on ukraine, because some of these iāve been able to find before going to darknet (second page of startpage search results) seem rather sane
https://www.instagram.com/slavojzizeks/p/C8g0yYRvLFL/
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/08/ukraine-must-go-to-war-with-itself
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/pacificsm-is-the-wrong-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine
ā¦huh. Your sources are certainly more credible than my half-remembered reddit posts. I think I was probably mistaken on this one.
Basing my opinions on who seems nice or not. Iām visualizing a very angry Taleb shouting about how these assholes learned nothing from him.