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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
How cute, look at that wild rat trying to appear neutral and unbiased and not-at-all a rat and Just Leaving This Here for you to read where āthisā refers to the entire fucking canon of rationalist writings.
itās so practiced too ā āso I guess you could read Wikipedia but also! this tracingwoodgrains guy might have some points worth considering!ā and from there youāre meant to ping-pong off the Wikipedia article into traceās long-winded literal horseshit and the rest of the inane crap thatās linked after that, til you can no longer remember the non-rationalist sources youāve read because your mindās overwhelmed with the worst shit ever written, but you feel like you thoroughly researched both sides (and thatās only part of why centrism is a fucking trap)
how do I know? because this:
is exactly how Joe Rogan fans get you listening to his stupid shit daily, til youāre no longer listening to his podcast (supposedly) āat its bestā and instead youāre just listening to an overwhelming volume of right-wing horseshit with an occasional nod to both sides centrism so you donāt feel your world get smaller and darker as you embrace fascism
Just trying to be helpful! Iām definitely not trying to introduce you to this cult that was called out as a cult a few comments earlier! Which you would agree with me if you read all the things I posted and realised that we are the reasonablists.
look, they are just neutral and balanced, and pretend awful.systems and sneerclub donāt exist because they donāt even mention it.
See, if you just learn about this shit when youāre in high school and slowly read and occasionally reread the essays over the course of a decade or so it doesnāt seem overwhelming at all!