Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? 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.
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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)


Its just so tiring. Now a rather prominent KDE dev is also valiantly defending the fashtech flagship projects from being accurately described as fascist.
I scrolled down two toots and found this
dunno this person at all but thatās a pretty telling start
Its a shame really because his video on Lunduke wasnāt too bad but as it turns out he is the worlds most laughable centrist.
itās really weird how this asshole needs us to believe fascists arenāt fascist and keeps going out of his way to talk about how dumb the left is, isnāt it.
for anyone wondering what the rest of the toxicity in the Wayland ecosystem that isnāt hyprland looks like, itās dickheads like this controlling every conversation and technical decision. if you dig into the accounts this dickhead interacts with, youāll see plenty of KDE and GNOME profiles clapping along to this shit. Wayland isnāt the way it is by accident.
Fosstodon does not have a good history in this regard. It took some effort to get them to drop a far-right mod earlier this year, and even with a shuffle of leadership theyāre clearly all about the centrist acceptance of the right wing and the repeated assertion that tech isnāt political and that all this is just so much drama.
yep. thereās a couple communities out there that mistake āgrowthā for āgoodā, and I get the sense thatās one of the problems fosstodon has. not the only one, mind - other stuff also appears to be impactful. I donāt have enough spoons to make a good thorough analysis of it tho :|
Guyās also publicly denying the flagship products are fash in the replies (Exhibit A, Exhibit B):
Itās only real fascism if the dev runs around the streets of Rome carrying a bundle of sticks, come on.