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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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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I swear to god post the map with lots of diagonal arrows one more time

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

lol, no, but this was good post

some inane fucking thing from bloomberg or NYT or someone’s Bad Visualisations Department. it’s at least 35 points of psychic damage

10 centibasilisk simtime units in old money

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I hate how realistic the notion of enduring psychic damage as currency is, especially with the guy's attitude towards crypto.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago

The Quantified Self

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's really fucking dumb because trump got 2 million less votes than in 2020. really great map for learning the wrongest possible lesson from this election.

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If we're gonna do the arrows thing we should at least use a meaningful 2D plane for the vector. Let the X-axis represent the left/right shift but use the Y-axis to represent overall turnout in each district.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

(e: damn lemmy for posting to the wrong chain)

ikr i've already seen it too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

I have been having this feeling in a couple places too, heh