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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 June 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 6 months ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Also Yud: I can't be a cult leader, because I dress funny.

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

🙃

Not a cult just a following. Like Andrew Tate for nerds

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

Incredible Richard Stallman vibe in this picture (this is a compliment)

Person replying to someone saying they are not a cult leader by comparing them to another person often seen as a cult leader.

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

But he didn’t include punctuation! This must mean it’s a joke and that obviously he’s a cult leader. The funny hat (very patriarch like thing to have) thief should only count himself lucky that EY is too humble to send the inquisition after him.

Bless him, he didn’t even get angry.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nobody drills down to the heart of the matter, why would this prove you are not a cult leader, and what does this say about somebody like Charles Manson, who also dressed funny and sometimes was disrespected by his cult members (he was anti drugs, and his followers well yeah, not so much) does this make him also not a cult leader?

Lol at the 'where can I join your cult?' in the replies. Also literally text written on the walls, also not very crazyperson style look.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

it is true that he would vanquish Derek Guy by just sucking so much