The spooks grow ever closer, and the abyss grows ever sandier.

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.)

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[–] 11 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

Look he is right, if you redefine 'rent' to mean something totally else that includes people being paid for their labour.

In the same way that telling people they should pay their fair share of taxes is actually saying you want to murder them. (Sorry crazy libertarian logic is the only way I can make sense of this).

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

    He points out that mathematicians are also rent-seekers (though only 20% rent-seeking). You know, those famously capital-extractive mathematicians.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Oh my god he’s doing fandom gatekeeping discourse

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    yeah it like. infuriates me that "fully automated luxury communism" was named in a way to specifically pay homage to the past. the word "communism" itself is some sort of vicious traditionalism that refuses to create new things

    https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3my3letkpbc2b

    Lol dorkus

    It's "fully automated luxury gay space communism", and every adjective is a pithy critique of the past.

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