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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
From the Small Mercies desk: remember Simone Collins was running for office in Pennsylvania? Well, she lost her campaign. Hereās a piece about her from the Inquirer.
Running for office is just a stunt for these people. More unearned publicity.
Oh boy an hour long video about how the trans are transing eachother as part of a trans cult!
But why arenāt they concerned about kids being tricked into the life altering decision of being an āanti-wokeā podcaster? š¤
Edit ā made it through most of that video (how??) and itās a bunch of reaching and fear mongering while trying to sound like principled conservatives. The funniest part was probably them blaming anime avatars for trans people.
Edit ā just kidding the funniest part was the guy calling trans people the āpriest classā of urbanism. Worship me and I shall bless you with seperated bicycle lanes and bountiful farmers markets!
holy fuck, Iāve seen anti-trans accounts on mastodon spew this same shit and Iām kind of surprised itās a wider conservative conspiracy theory and not something local to mastodon
leftists donāt go to church on Sundays, they just trans themselves and then bikeshed about bike sheds
I think Blanchard started with this one. If you needed more proof the guy is an absolute case of brain worms.
E: I wonder what caused the sudden public appearance of more trans people, anime? Or the change in laws about a decade ago where most of the western world stopped sterilizing and going after trans people. (it is nuts that the terfs never bring this up, so worried about trans healthcare perhaps causing some permanent changes while ignoring that very recently that sterilization was mandatory in most of the western world (A law in .nl between 1985 and 2014 for example). Fucking assholes.)