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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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.

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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[-] zogwarg@awful.systems 14 points 20 hours ago

Pressing F for doubt, looks like a marketing scam to me.

[-] scruiser@awful.systems 8 points 11 hours ago

It's pretty screwed up that humble bragging about putting their own mother out of a job is a useful opening to selling a scam-service. At least the people that buy into it will get what they have coming?

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

that or some kind of bait

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 19 hours ago

I didn't dig into the post/username at all so I can't guesstimate likelihood of this! get where you're coming from

(......I really need to finish my blog relaunch (this thought brought to you by the explication I was about to embark on in this context))

(((it's soon.gif tho!)))

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