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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 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 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.

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

I found the most HN comment of all time:

What sort of mating strategy are you optimizing for?

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

Optimizing mating strategies? But I'm terrible at chess!

[-] self@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

please tell me the topic was repopulating endangered species of animals

oh who the fuck am I kidding, it’s the orange site

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

we're talking about the endangered species of white cishet males here please don't demean this important topic with jokes

Edit I wish I was joking but a luser with a classical Greek-ish handle replies

Women are optimizing 80% of men out of the gene pool.

What the men do is irrelevant.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

What the men do is irrelevant.

What most of the orange site frequenting men do is indeed irrelevant, though for different reasons than they think.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

That's the state of the job market these days: even the pick-up artists have STEM degrees.

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