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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.

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 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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[-] HotGarbage@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nice breakdown and takedown of Omarchy and its ilk. https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/

The chuds on HN of course hated my sharing it, though it hasn't been flagged (yet). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661901

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

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don't give a shit about you.

one million times this

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

Aaaaaand flagged

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This makes me want to try omarchy

Those kinds of comments are 4chan style psyops moves. Literally have some screenshots of them discussing this tactic somewhere.

Edit: Found the images. Sorry for no alt text, but it is a bit too much to type out, put them under a spoiler as to not spam the thread. Note that they are more talking about the whole 'this is helping push people rightward' messaging than this specific thing I quoted from HN.

4chan images

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

sartre proven more right every day

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

Yeah that on antisemitism thing he wrote just describes the far right trolls perfectly.

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