Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025 - awful.systems
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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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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 you’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 cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    23 days ago

    some thiel news, in which the tiny little man keeps trailblazing being the absolute weirdest motherfucker:

    He has found religion recently. I don’t know if you’ve been following this, but Peter Thiel is now running Bible study groups in Silicon Valley.

    now you may read this and already start straining your eyes, so I strongly suggest you warm up before you read with the rest of the paragraph, which continues:

    He said in a few interviews recently that he believes that the Antichrist is Greta Thunberg. It’s extraordinary. He said that it’s foretold that the Antichrist will be seeming to spread peace. But here’s his thinking. He says Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. (Now, that’s a gross caricature of what she’s said.) But he’s said Greta wants everyone to ride a bicycle. That may seem good, but the only way that could happen is if there was a world government that was regulating it. And that is more evil than the effects of climate change.

    • mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish
      15·
      23 days ago

      Hm, I don’t believe in biblical apocalypse stuff, but if I did I wouldn’t think that the climate activist gambling her life to get supplies to the starving population in Gaza is the anti-christ.

      I think a power hungry, wannabe vampire, billionaire with companies named after corrupting artifacts, more fits the bill.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        23 days ago

        The anti-christ also needs to be universally liked iirc. And the Catholic church explicitly bans calling out a time (and thus a person) as the anti-christ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Council_of_the_Lateran if by a miracle I’m declared Pope (which is technically possible (yes, im unironically linking to r/neoliberal, it was one of the first hits on google, but I’m never beating the accusations)) I will excom all these people, Oprah giving out cars style. (vote for me you cowards).

        Re: the white smoke, anyway, still available to become an antipope at reasonable rates.

        • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
          11·
          23 days ago

          I’m gonna be real disappointed if thiel is the anti-christ. Like disappointed in the writing and narrative of the universe

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      13·
      23 days ago

      As a Dutch person, why can’t yall be normal about bikes? Just invest in separate bike lanes and protect people on bicycles from drivers (I really need to write out my manifesto blog post on how I think car ownership turns you into a psychopath one day). It isn’t that hard. (Shoutout to the couple who was crossing the Houtribdijk (actually a dam, not a dike) on bikes last week)

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        13·
        23 days ago

        I remember seeing a particularly stupid libertarian guy argue against public transport by saying that car owners would lose out because the value of having a car would decrease. I think it’s a crab in a bucket type mentality. Everyone should suffer from cars. I blame Big Car for this.

      • FredFig@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        23 days ago

        Hey that’s unfair, us North Americans are as normal about bikes as we’re normal about cars.

    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      22 days ago

      It is very important to notice and continually point out that these people appear to believe more fervently in their chosen demons than they do in their proclaimed god

    • saucerwizard@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      22 days ago

      Does anyone know what church Thiel is involved with? I’ve heard catholic as well as evangelical…like are they making an exception to the gay marriage because he’s rich??

      • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Thiel isn’t known to be among any laity. He was raised as some flavor of evangelical fundie and follows a specific philosopher, René Girard. He generally hasn’t gotten a pass on being queer from the wider Christian community, and if you want to hear some psychoanalysis of his closet then you might enjoy the relevant Behind the Bastards: How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy.