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.)

  • veganes_hack@awful.systemsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    didn’t want to post this on mastodon, somebody else can do that i guess. if you look at the maintainer’s youtube (which he links to himself on his website), you’ll find a public playlist (archive) titled “history”. contained are lots of recorded talks from such luminaries such as curtis yarvin, peter thiel, eric weinstein.

    edit: the other playlists have some cool stuff as well

        • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
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          2 days ago

          He just started deleting playlists. I feel partially responsible, so I’m dumping the part of my notes that has all of the links to the videos that he favorited over the years. Sorry Justin, cowardice won’t work.

          • Justin M. Keyes
            • GH
              • Berlin!?
            • neovim maintainer
              • original forker? has access to GH neovim org, at least
            • Coward: deletes evidence, refuses to talk, avoids confrontation
            • DHH fan; had to be pilloried in two GH issues ([deleted], 2) before removing a DHH endorsement from neovim
            • Youtube favorites from playlists include some bastards:
              • Scott Adams 1
              • Mel Gibson 1 (with Joe Rogan)
              • Sabine Hossenfelder 1 2
              • Balaji Srinivasan 1
              • Peter Thiel 1 2 (with Eric Weinstein) 3 4
              • Bret Weinstein 1
              • Eric Weinstein 1 (in a playlist called “history”!) 2
              • Curtis Yarvin 1 2 3 4 5 6
          • veganes_hack@awful.systemsEnglish
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            2 days ago

            i was wondering when the deleting phase would come. but it always does, they’re never actually proud about their fascist views when there’s actual evidence they can’t plausibly deny.