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 you’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 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.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    my local community radio station is getting in on the act with a quality sneer in their annual magazine:

    What if the Silicon Valley creeps who control huge swathes of our existence decided that they didn’t want this to be their legacy? Well, one solution would be to guarantee the survival of the species by uploading our brains into computers and rocketing them into space. If a few people cark it in the climate catastrophe, it’ll be fine as long as there’s a big cyber noggin down the track… just google TESCREAL. We didn’t make this up.

      • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
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        3 months ago

        didn’t think anyone would catch this! I might have to at this rate, there’d be no shortage of material…

        • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I had just been looking at their website or I wouldn’t have caught it, lol.

          I think Yeah Nah Pasaran have done some coverage of technofascism and TESCREAL.

          You should definitely pitch a show. You could have an evil AI as a co-presenter.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Walks into the room, hits the top of the doorframe, making sounds like a gallon of water being sloshed around

        You called?

          • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
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            3 months ago

            hmm this got me scrolling through his TL. I didn’t know or forgot that shen is actually a really good poster, shame I didn’t follow him while I was on twitter

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Shen always seemed like a pretty decent person who posts pretty well. The whole situation where people attacked him for accepting the theft of his bike was pretty strange. (The comic just went ‘well, guess they need it more than I do, whatever’ which seems like a healthy way to get over your bike getting stolen. And people lost their minds, how dare Shen not be angry!).

              And seems somebody made a docu about that note the person reacting to this still mad about Shens acceptance.

              • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
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                3 months ago

                when I first saw the bike comic I remember struck me as exactly what someone would write in the midst of a pathetic attempt at positive thinking. but if it represents how he genuinely felt, for me it goes from cringe and not that interesting to just not interesting

                that comic is especially enraging to right wingers. that’s where I’ve seen the most sustained loathing for it. the idea that despised lowlies are stealing your shit and you must strike back/first is fundamental to right wing ideology, especially the right wing conception of masculinity. you’re supposed to hate the people lower than you in the hierarchy largely because their existence is theft. a guy not being mad about actual real theft by some city rando spits on a premise their whole ideology rests on

                it kind of reminds me of the “I really like girls” video which I’m too lazy to pull up. it’s just a streamer doing a cute little rap about how he really likes women, and someone put a mildly cringe animation over it. very online right wingers hate hate hate that video, because you’re not supposed to actually like women, because they’re lower than men in the hierarchy. or such would be the subtext when they ranted about it

                • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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                  3 months ago

                  I mean, what the hell else are you going to do if your bike was stolen? Instead of doing nothing about it you can go to the police so they can do nothing about it.

                  • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
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                    3 months ago

                    My answer to bike theft is to scrap all the cop cars and make the police ride bikes. After the 500th police bike theft you bet they’d find a solution