Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025 - eviltoast

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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

      • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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        6 hours ago

        On one hand, torture. On the other hand if you wanted to throw a billionaire crypto grifter into the Omelas hole Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™d take a few weeks before I started caring.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      truly the podcasting bros are the most oppressed minority in america

      (also it looks like a bit more than the usual audience numbers for carlson channel, but itā€™s only one day so itā€™s kinda a bit more than nobody watched it. but itā€™s much less than when he openly pandered to schizos, cryptobros or vatniks)