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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.

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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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Despite all the doomer propaganda that has been swirling around for many years, it's still easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Selling your hours on a laptop won't protect you while asset owners capture all the upside

Ignoring for a moment the laughable proposition of this generation of AI automating away half of all knowledge workers, all the enthusiastic teenage Marxists of the internet couldn't describe the problem with capitalism more succinctly than this aspiring rentier did seemingly by accident.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

The 0.1x proletariat strike again!

[-] maol@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago

What does he think all the suddenly unemployed and angry masses are gonna do in this scenario? Twiddle their thumbs? Or does he think there's gonna be some sort of mass killing of the surplus labour?

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

I imagine they envision the slow social murder of the dispossessed, sort of a global San Francisco.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Do not overweight the current struggles, comrades; we will have attained full Communism as soon as 1995.

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