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Welcome to November, and 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.

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

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[-] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 12 hours ago

Does that mean Musk is now legally obligated to transition or was it just the children?

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 16 points 5 hours ago

Trans people continue to be very worried about US politics despite the blue wave. In Washington and Colorado the trans sports ban is ahead. In Colorado the trans youth healthcare ban is ahead. A lot of the transphobic democrats are doing OK vote wise.

The very real risk here is that trans rights continue to backslide even under a democratic congress or, two years from now, a democratic congress and executive branch.

So while the transgender for everyone memes are appreciated, we're not out of the woods yet. Liberals are also susceptible to anti-trans propaganda and boy howdy there has been a lot of it.

All that said: the trans council does not bestow the honor of transition on Musk. He must remain cis and miserable.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

While I have absolutely no hope in democrats or liberals for meaningfully supporting trans people, I would love to be proven wrong.

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