Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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 cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      “MIT-style culture but not run by the worst people you know” is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to convey

      e: also, implicitly, without the shit bigotry hiding under the surface that those worst people imbued the culture with

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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      8 months ago

      Now I hope all the dumb MIT subculture jokes actually exist on student forums, where they belong. Because I can’t stop thinking of them now that you’ve got me started.

      * Stata because none of our angles will be right angles.

      * Course Six Sigma

      * Infinite Sneeridor

      Oh god I have to stop before I get to all the “Beaver” jokes.