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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
what in the absolute fuck
āyou shouldnāt do anything that works to resist fascismā is going to be the neoliberal siren call for 4+ years, isnāt it
imagine writing something like this and considering yourself to be the adult in the room. just a big ol politics understander, writing and writing and none of it means a fucking thing. you get up every morning and somehow the dread doesnāt make you collapse back into bed.
I feel like we could solve a lot of the leftās problems in the US by building a time machine and giving 13 year old Aaron Sorkin about 10 lbs of 2024 weed.
It doesnāt even fit with the axioms of market logic! If the platform in question has terrible content moderation, primarily generates revenue from profoundly repulsive people, and was intentionally bought out to be used as the central propaganda organ for a destructive political movementā¦ why wouldnāt you leave?! Dude just doesnāt want to admit heās too lazy to redo his follows elsewhere
It makes sense if you consider that Twitterās users are essentially creating the product that is sold to advertisers rather than actually buying a product. Leaving Twitter en masse to try and force a policy change isnāt a boycott, itās a strike. And we know how neoliberalism feels about organized labor.
Always has been.
Liberals: vote for us, we are diet fascism, we are the lesser evil! We reduce harm!
Itās been the siren call for the last 400 years.