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)

    • o7___o7@awful.systems
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      The thing thatā€™s most baffling to me is how the difference in ground game had zero impact. We were pounding the pavement, doors got fuckin knocked. The GOP did less than zero, firing their entire staff responsible for in-person outreach and gave 100 million to PACs run by grifters who put it directly into their own pockets.

      Unless weā€™ve missed a trick, retail politics as it has existed is dead.

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        Dem talking heads spending so much energy courting moderate conservative votes was an excellent way to demobilise their base. They really gave their all to lose an election that should have been a free win.

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          This wasnā€™t a free win, however. The reason Harris took over in the first place was because Bidenā€™s performance in the debate was poor enough that the Democrats thought there was no longer any chance with him, and this was already with lowering approval ratings. Had he stayed, I bet Trumpā€™s victory would have been even wider.

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          20 hours ago

          I mean, I donā€™t think it was unreasonable to expect liberals to show up against someone whoā€™s sole policy proposals were mass deportations and political reprisals, and so I can understand the logic of focusing on the center (which in US politics means center-right).

          But this being the democratic party, they also couldnā€™t commit to an actual narrative to make that play. Rather than ā€œlook at their ties to Big Tech!ā€ or even sticking with ā€œlook how weird these people are!ā€ they had to go hat-in-hand and stake themselves to divisive (to say nothing of abhorrent) policies because thatā€™s the only connection they could try to make. I think weā€™re seeing a major problem with the whole ā€œbig tentā€ concept.

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        It was twitter. Elon Musk joins Trumpā€™s team. What happens? Harrisā€™ chances begin to drop.
        Trump did lose support, but there was probably enough propaganda on Twitter to make enough people go ā€œboth sidesā€ and just sit out the election.