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)

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      How cute, look at that wild rat trying to appear neutral and unbiased and not-at-all a rat and Just Leaving This Here for you to read where ā€œthisā€ refers to the entire fucking canon of rationalist writings.

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        itā€™s so practiced too ā€” ā€œso I guess you could read Wikipedia but also! this tracingwoodgrains guy might have some points worth considering!ā€ and from there youā€™re meant to ping-pong off the Wikipedia article into traceā€™s long-winded literal horseshit and the rest of the inane crap thatā€™s linked after that, til you can no longer remember the non-rationalist sources youā€™ve read because your mindā€™s overwhelmed with the worst shit ever written, but you feel like you thoroughly researched both sides (and thatā€™s only part of why centrism is a fucking trap)

        how do I know? because this:

        finally, iā€™m going to link to some posts from slatestarcodex and astral codex ten, its sucessor blog, some classic ones just to give you a feel for what people appreciate about it at its best

        is exactly how Joe Rogan fans get you listening to his stupid shit daily, til youā€™re no longer listening to his podcast (supposedly) ā€œat its bestā€ and instead youā€™re just listening to an overwhelming volume of right-wing horseshit with an occasional nod to both sides centrism so you donā€™t feel your world get smaller and darker as you embrace fascism

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          Just trying to be helpful! Iā€™m definitely not trying to introduce you to this cult that was called out as a cult a few comments earlier! Which you would agree with me if you read all the things I posted and realised that we are the reasonablists.

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          look, they are just neutral and balanced, and pretend awful.systems and sneerclub donā€™t exist because they donā€™t even mention it.

      • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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        See, if you just learn about this shit when youā€™re in high school and slowly read and occasionally reread the essays over the course of a decade or so it doesnā€™t seem overwhelming at all!

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      Words words words and more words that link to even more words (that you can ctrl-f for the relevant bits!)