Want to wade into the snowy 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 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 so 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.)

  • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If someone deals with this using denial (one of Freud’s maladaptive defenses), you get the nerd who says “no, I really am the next Einstein,” ie a crackpot, aka the sort of person who gets featured on Sneerclub. If they deal with it using reaction formation (another of Freud’s maladaptive defenses), you get the self-hating nerd, aka the sort of person who joins Sneerclub⁴.

    Fuck how is Scott’s prose always so boring.

    But hey, the news to me is: Is Freud a thing in the Alexandrian county of the ratworld now? I thought Freud was supposed to be illogical pseudoscience mystification or something

    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Self… hating…? No, pal, we are here because we specifically and explicitly hate YOU, and want to set firm social boundaries against you and your fellow travelers. I don’t know how to express this more straightforwardly. I don’t think it’s possible. Please refer back to this specific comment if you become confused about this point again in the future.

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Self-hating nerd may sound like a quip, but he is pretty specifically painting us as tribe traitors.

        Remember, for them, the male nerd is a vulnerable minority, and that they haven’t been granted protected status yet is possibly the greatest injustice of our time.

        We’re basically supposed to be fucking up their chances for finally instituting a society-wide word-count based sex redistribution scheme by cozying up to the Man normies who think cults are bad and don’t appreciate race science.

        • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Somehow I doubt sneerclub turning out to be gigachad central is going to do wonders for curing their persecution complex, but I’m here for it, I even have a couple of (really local) combat sports tournament medals to show for from back in the day.

    • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      If they deal with it using reaction formation (another of Freud’s maladaptive defenses), you get the self-hating nerd, aka the sort of person who joins Sneerclub.

      evidently Scott’s theory of mind is so malformed he can only conceptualize other men as different (imperfect) clones of himself

      i specify men here because we know he considers women closer to viruses or perhaps large parasites