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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • s3p5r@lemm.ee
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    owned by a right-wing asshole

    Wait, what? Can I get some info or even just the right search terms to force Google to give me useful info? I know heā€™s done the eye-roll-worthy ā€œno politics in my artformā€ bullshit but if thereā€™s more Iā€™ve missed, Iā€™m keen to know.

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      most of itā€™s on Twitter and therefore inaccessible to me, but Sweeney has a habit of falling all over himself to defend musk in nonsensical ways, and musk continuously returns the favor. the two of them boosting each other politically is something that keeps happening ā€” a search for tim sweeney musk or similar should surface more recent examples without flooding you with ā€œno politics in artā€ results (though thatā€™s a dogwhistle too, soā€¦)

      Sweeney has a wider track record of saying slimy fash shit on Twitter ā€” itā€™s why heā€™s a meme on mastodon ā€” but like I said, none of thatā€™s accessible to me anymore. it fucking sucks that both of the programmers I idolized as a naive kid turned out to be huge fucking assholes though

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        Carmack has always struck me as the kind of cishet white GenX dude that gets more and more pissed that everythingā€™s ā€œpoliticalā€, I just wanna code, man, why is everyone mad at me that he more or less inevitably falls into fascism. Sure games can be coded as ā€œcounterculturalā€ but the genres that Doom and Quake represent are quasi-fascist already.

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          That has also always been my gut feel about Carmack, but it still sucks to see the evidence. I wish that gut feeling would stop being so dammed accurate, but it gets a lot of practise.

          Doom was definitely christofascist fantasy porn. At least Quake you were defending invasion from the most literal manifestation of eugenicist Space-Nazis possible. Yes I am choosing to disregard the inherent US military fetishism because I donā€™t want to ruin my formative media which I deep down always knew was problematic.

          sigh

          Can I at least keep the soundtracks as pleasant and untarnished memories?

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        Ugh. Thanks, yeah thatā€™s good enough for me without even opening xcancel. My search for ā€œTim Sweeney conservativeā€ only dredged up his land conservation purchases and the ā€œstop being so divisiveā€ / ā€œno politics in artā€ dogwhistles which had previously made me suspicious, but I had mostly forgotten about. I quit Twitter many years ago so I missed that whole knobslobbering saga and didnā€™t think to include Musk after skimming todayā€™s shitty Google ā€œsearchā€ results.

        Ah fuck, and Carmack too? Goddamn it. Twist the knife a little harder.

        Fucking tech bros, always ruining tech.