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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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

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    Ah i recall somebody got mad when I mentioned traditionally capitalists will team up with fascists.

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        12 hours ago

        this is going in hard enough that I suspect zuck is not expecting there to be another meaningful election

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          a few people have been posting along the lines of ā€œwe all knew Facebook was evil, why are you surprisedā€ which seems to miss the point ā€” this is happening so fast and blatant that weā€™re almost definitely seeing the early stages of a playbook being executed. and even if not: Facebook was already the fash pipeline targeting mom, dad, and grandma. should I feel good that the pipeline is getting much more efficient and pervasive? none of them are ever gonna be on something like the fediverse.

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              Todayā€™s newsā€¦

              internally at Meta:

              -trans and nonbinary themes stripped from Messenger

              -enforcement policy now allows for the denial of trans peopleā€™s existence

              -tampons removed from menā€™s restrooms

              -DEI programs shuttered

              -Kaplan briefed top conservative influencers the night before policy changes were announced