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.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    thanks! I’ve been enjoying the weekly threads, feels like they provide an easier way to get involved.

    I thought at the end of the article they’d provide a modicum of push back by sharing the perspective of someone outside the cult, but nope, they round it out with a “self-professed doomer” EA, who they introduce as (and only as):

    the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy, Matt’s a successful Australian entrepreneur.

    Objection, relevance?

    • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      nvm found the relevance, Linkedin tells me he was involved in hosting Lesswrong for 9 years lol

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      the co-founder of a global accessories brand called Bellroy,

      fuck now I gotta burn my bellroy shit.