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 you’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 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.

Last week’s thread

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

  • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Jesus Christ.

    This guy is a classic example of kook magnetism with a side of Dunning-Kreuger.

    Job history is sus as hell too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Barsky

    Some dweeb with a journalism degree gets a job at a hedge fund right out of grad school, bombs out, “goes back to” journalism. Newspapers can’t get enough of this kind of guy; not surprised TERF Island’s paper of record picked him up nor am I surprised that they think RFK Jr might be good actually.

    • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      With a touch of, and maybe I’m being mean, “this particular bad thing shouldn’t happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till now”

      I thought it was particularly telling that he says someone else in the “metabolic health” world warned him not to be mean about RFK. Take that as a sign that you’re in kooksville!

      • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        “…this particular bad thing shouldn’t happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till now…”

        Ugh, but also, good point. It’s like Engineer’s Disease fucked The Secret and made something even worse.

        • maol@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          I think it happens often enough when someone rich and/or famous becomes disabled or has a disabled kid. See the whole world of alternative treatments for autism.