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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.

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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    i mean, i have a friend who is literally a UFO religion believer, but theyā€™re decent and politically good and trustworthy and present as normal-English, so

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      see occasionally you meet a UFO person and theyā€™re normal and you only find out about their interest in UFOs because itā€™s the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit. in effect, their UFO hobby is essentially a modified radio/birdwatching hobby thatā€™s hopefully driving them to learn more about the world around them

      but much more often you meet a UFO person and hear the absolute worst thing youā€™ve heard all month while looking for an escape route, without making it too obvious because youā€™re fairly certain theyā€™re armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up because you wouldnā€™t discuss lizard people with them.

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        you only find out about their interest in UFOs because itā€™s the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit

        you know, I donā€™t know if Iā€™ve actually run into this kind of conversation. I donā€™t think I have. or if I almost did, I fairly likely applied a conversation logic-shortcircuit way before it got there (because of ambient red flag count). but fuck me, if I donā€™t know exactly the kind of person youā€™re referring toā€¦ :|

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          also

          without making it too obvious because youā€™re fairly certain theyā€™re armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up

          ZA has many problems (and oh christ could I wax lyrical), but thank fuck I do not live in fucking eaglecountry

          itā€™s a whole fucked-up 'ole dynamic when you need to ā€œwatch your backā€ in the most very literal sense because you didnā€™t eat some bozoā€™s shit :|