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 you’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 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

    • @Architeuthis
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      29 days ago

      Nothing in the article suggests he is a programmer, or that being a programmer is inherently fascist.

      • @bitofhope
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        69 days ago

        You’re both incorrect. I am the least fascist programmer and I’m here to tell you programming is inherently fascist.

        • @o7___o7
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          They say that you can’t destroy the master’s house with the master’s tools, but what about hammers?

          • @bitofhope
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            79 days ago

            Yea, what if the master owns a wrecking ball, a bulldozer, a heavy duty excavator and a bunch of dynamite?

            Yes, this is a metaphor for C programming, how did you know?

            • @o7___o7
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              Funny thing, the sawzall vanished right before his catalytic converter went missing