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.

      • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I’m a bit surprised to see his name. I read “Seeing like a bank” and snippets of a few other blogposts, he didn’t come off as a ghoul

        • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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          6 months ago

          it’ll be interesting to see his reaction to the room full of race scientists. I wonder how well they can hide their power level.

          • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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            6 months ago

            suspicion: this is a recruitment event, and a lot of people might try to be on their best obfuscatory behaviour

    • mlen@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.

    • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      preview:

      reality:

      “how to inflate your event by pretending there’s more to it” (tbh i wouldn’t mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)

      • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
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        6 months ago

        ESR hasn’t blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.

        • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
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          6 months ago

          It got a malware infection and nobody bothered fixing it. By the end its commenters were enjoying long threads entirely composed of dogwhistles.