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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.

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

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 22 points 2 days ago

Curtis Yarvin:

Girls think the "eu" in "eugenics" means EW. Don't get the ick, girls! It literally means good.

So if you're not into eugenics, that means you must be into dysgenics. Dissing your own genes! OMG girl what

dr. caitlin m. green:

... how is this man still able to post from inside the locker he should be stuffed in 24/7

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 2 days ago

Seeing Yarvin mansplain eugenics really does make one wonder how he doesn't just get suckerpunched whenever he says anything at someone in public.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

Not beating the sexism allegations.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

The eigenrobot thread he's responding to is characteristically bizarre and gross. You'd think eigenrobot being anti-eugenics is a good thing but he still finds a way to make it suspect. (He believes being unable to make babies is worse than death?)

[-] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

I think he means "mass sterilisation of a population" Vs "mass murder of the same population", which is genocide either way, and then he would opt for the faster method.

Or something. Feels extra creepy discussing which genocide is better with the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

Re: extra creepy: and also with people their people in power.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean I guess you can argue that straight up murder has a certain honesty to it? At the same time that is mainly good because it makes it harder to justify what's happening compared to anti-miscegenation laws or restricting people to an open-air prison for a few generations. And we can see how that's working out in the current political climate.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

sounds like he's posting from inside a dilapidated white panel van parked strategically just outside a legally-mandated exclusion radius surrounding a middle school

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

So, he's essentially Drake if he got into AI doom

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