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The post Xitter web has spawned soo 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.

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      I don’t understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs.

      (my emphasis)

      that’s your problem right there bud

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        As somebody who amateur DJ’ed (badly, very badly I must add, I’m not suddenly cool, more the reverse):

        I don’t understand the logic behind the playlists in nightclubs. IMO, the choice of music is often quite bad, it leans heavily towards repetitive EDM, the playlists could consist of far more interesting music

        This is such a revealing thing. And the theorizing after it on why bars do this is even more revealing (he could have just asked). But yeah people don’t go to bars for interesting new music, they come for the socializing, which is a lot easier if everybody can dance along with the music, or just nod along with it if it is more a socializing place. Sometimes there also isn’t a plan but just ‘we should get a DJ’.

        The whole list is a collection of ‘I have no empathy and I also never thought about asking people about these things’ btw.

        • Mike Knell@blat.at
          10·
          8 months ago

          @Soyweiser @gerikson Plus the sets of “people who can DJ competently” and “people who are convinced that they should be allowed to DJ in public” do not, unfortunately, overlap completely.

            • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
              6·
              8 months ago

              I guess he doesn’t realize that everyone has a different idea of what music is interesting, and the big nightclubs have to go for the lowest common denominator in order to keep up sales.

              • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
                3·
                8 months ago

                I kept with the “this has definitely seen mass consciousness” options to really hammer down the point ;D

      • sinedpick@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        What’s wrong with the weed advice? Seems reasonable enough to me.

        The 2 page treatise on inequality which is primarily impotent faffing about from “first principles” definitely hurt me though

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          8 months ago

          the psychoactive effects are quite subjective (and no one-size fits all), so I find the stated-as-fact/certainty of tone there a bit of a waste

          (it is also a very common enough thing in many communities of people that partake in psychoactives, but, yeah)