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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    Hot Take: the damage from RFK Jr will be limited by the fact that heā€™s messing with the money for several large industries, particularly agriculture and pharmaceuticals. They have bottomless pockets and arenā€™t afraid to bribe the bribable. There will be damage, but heā€™ll be crushed like a bug in the end.

    Also, he clearly annoys the orange guy, can offer him nothing in return now that the election is over, and has already been the victim of a ritual humiliation (e.g. being forced to partake in a McDonaldā€™s meal for the camera), which is the first sign of a Trump guy being de-emphasized.

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        should RFK Jr be able to abandon his numerous conspiracy theories about vaccines, he can be the most transformative health secretary in our countryā€™s history

        this is exactly the sort of shit centrists were writing about trump in 2016. I guess they canā€™t get away with doing that now so theyā€™re just writing the same pieces but about his underlings

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          Itā€™s very ā€œshould RFK Jr become a completely different person to the person he is and has been for years, he could really do some great stuffā€

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        Jesus Christ.

        This guy is a classic example of kook magnetism with a side of Dunning-Kreuger.

        Job history is sus as hell too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Barsky

        Some dweeb with a journalism degree gets a job at a hedge fund right out of grad school, bombs out, ā€œgoes back toā€ journalism. Newspapers canā€™t get enough of this kind of guy; not surprised the TERF Islandā€™s paper of record picked him up nor am I surprised that they think RFK Jr might be good actually.

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          With a touch of, and maybe Iā€™m being mean, ā€œthis particular bad thing shouldnā€™t happen to someone like me! it must be that no one else tried hard enough to fix it till nowā€

          I thought it was particularly telling that he says someone else in the ā€œmetabolic healthā€ world warned him not to be mean about RFK. Take that as a sign that youā€™re in kooksville!

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      Hopefully the established capitalists will protect us from the fascistsā€™ worst excesses hasnā€™t been much of a winning bet historically.

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        oh no, nothing is protecting us, youā€™re 100% right there. Eating food is about to become a much more dicey proposition.

        It is still safe to assume that the ghouls who run Pfizer and ConAgra will bend their resources to protecting the bag from a disposable nutjob.