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 - this one was a bit late, I got distracted)

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    the richest boy in the world sued to stop The Onion from turning infowars into a parody of itself on the grounds that he thinks infowarsā€™ twitter accounts shouldnā€™t be transferred as part of the bankruptcy even though thatā€™s something that happens constantly and also wouldnā€™t impact the rest of the bankruptcy proceedings even if it were grounded in anything resembling fact

    Musk has also tweeted occasionally that he believes The Onion is not funny.

    itā€™s getting really hard to adequately describe how funny musk isnā€™t. itā€™s not just try-hard shit like the weird sink thing, the soul-sucking cameos, or the fact that heā€™s literally throwing his money into stopping a comedy site from existing ā€” itā€™s everything taken as a whole. Iā€™d call him anti-comedy, but heā€™s so much less interesting than that implies

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      The Onion clowns on Olā€™ Musky constantly, despite his efforts to shut them down. Around the peak space X buzz, they wrote a headline that was like ā€œMusk invents the first infinitely divorceable wifeā€, which he managed to scrub from the internet (or at least, I canā€™t find it within 5 seconds), but other than that, he can only cope and seethe. He knows the onion is funny and can do nothing to become funny himself.

      I would label him as anti-humor or humorless. Dishumorous?

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      Musk is the most boring and pathetic kind of unfunny where he desperately wants to be in on the joke but is terrified that the joke is on him (because it is). Rather than accept this with any kind of humility he instead cannot accept the L and has basically spent all his vast money and power making that everyone elseā€™s problem.

      He is the worst mad scientist, ranting about how they called him mad when what we actually said was ā€œlol u mad bro?ā€