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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      11Ā·
      2 months ago

      no escape

      Rest of world: is there no alternative to US hegemony?

      CIA: *raises head from pile of blow, puts gun on table* no

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      10Ā·
      2 months ago

      Ok actually read the screed. Ahhhh yes good olā€™ Jeff ā€œIn the years after I bought the WaPo and everyone got suspicious, me and my billions of dollars have done nothing but improve the world and my credibility and definitely didnā€™t trap anyone in warehouses to die in a tornado, so you all trust me now, right?ā€ Bezos

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      7Ā·
      2 months ago

      Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right.

      I wonder what major world events were happening in the 1930s-1940s that would line up with thisā€¦

      As it turned out, Meyer did take the side of the Republican party on some issues. He was opposed to FDRā€™s New Deal, and this was reflected in the Postā€™s editorial stance as well as its news coverage, especially regarding the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He even wrote an editorializing ā€œnewsā€ story under a fake name

      THERE IT IS!

      But back to Jeff.

      You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests.

      Yep. Weā€™re protected from intimidation and extortion so long as we pay our dues to the consiglieri when he comes around and donā€™t get too chummy with the cops.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      4Ā·
      2 months ago

      more US politics I know. There is sadly no escape from the fiery vortex that is the U.S. election.

      (e: not blaming you, just posting from outside hell)