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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.

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    Expect promptheads to dismiss this as being the ramblings of a ā€œDEI hireā€ because theyā€™re confused by the dual use of ā€œequityā€ in their title.

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      Not just promptheads but the entire conspiratorial right is already way into not understanding how these functions and organizations work. There is a weird group of them who thinks that blackrock is a group of woke people (some of them are even saying it is ā€˜THEMā€™) behind everything. Because they confused a talk about ā€˜we need to tell organisations to focus more on diversityā€™ as a pro-diversity stance and not a ā€˜we need to make sure the companies we invest in donā€™t get sued, which causes a drop in share priceā€™.

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        Iā€™m sure they would find some wayĀ¹ to ruin it, but it would be fun if we could convince them to pass a law in some vice-signaling US state that bans private equityā€™s purchase of every vet and general contractor and empty house.

        Ā¹ Anti-semitism, probably.