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.)
Iāve been around the internet a long time, and even back then when throwing slurs at each other and āmaking funā of marginalized groups was, if not accepted, at least tolerated because it was considered some poor attempt at humor, I donāt remember ever seeing a rule or passage in any netiquette stating it that explicitly.
It was always āwe donāt censor speech but donāt be an assholeā with a giant asterisk about what both censoring and being an asshole meant, but I donāt think Iāve ever seen even the worst places say, āwe explicitly allow hate speech, go aheadā.
Holy fucking shitballs.