Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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 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.
you know what
a not-insignificant element of the TPOT cluster is the “cozy”/“vibes” aspect
and for some reason your reply just made me think the thought “while they espouse their shitty views they want to be comfortable, to maximize feeling unchallenged, to really get into it”
on the one hand it feels like an obvious realisation, but I also hadn’t really thought of it specifically like that before
(admittedly I’m briefly jumping from “rats -> postrats” there by referencing the TPOT cluster, but as is known the latter haven’t really changed their beliefs just their rendering)