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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    1 month ago

    As Nina Power was mentioned before, here is an article on a Welsh ā€˜druidā€™/forger which touches that subject (and Marx) a bit. People might find it an interesting read.

    Anti-Woke Druids and Radical Bards - ā€˜What links Welsh 18th century romantic Druid-Bards, gathering around a circle of pebbles in North London, and the contemporary online right?ā€™

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      Then there is John Michael Greerā€¦

      Wow, thatā€™s a name I havenā€™t heard in a long time.

      A regular contributor at UnHerdā€¦

      I did not know that, and I hate that it doesnā€™t surprise me. I tended to dismiss his peak oil doomerism as wishing for some imagined ā€œharmony with natureā€. This doesnā€™t help with that bias.