opinion: the AWB is too afrikaans for it to be likely that that is where he picked up his nazi shit. then-era ZA still had a lot of AF/EN animosity, and in a couple of biographies of the loon you hear things like "he hated life in ZA as a kid because .... {bullying}", and a non-zero amount of that may have stemmed from AF bullying EN

(icbw, it's definitely not something I've studied the history of the loon's tendencies, but can speak to (at least part[0]) of the ZA attitude)

(([0] - I wasn't alive at the time it would've mattered to him, but other bits of the cultural attitudes lasted well into my youth))

I recall seeing something of this sort happening on goog for about 12~18mo - every so often a researcher post does the rounds where someone finds Yet Another way goog is fucking it up

the advertising dept has completely captured all mindshare and it is (demonstrably) the only part that goog-the-business cares about

istg these people seem to roll "b-b-b-but <saltman|musk|sundar|....> gifted this technology to me personally, how could I possibly look this gift horse in the mouth" on the inside of their heads

Don't know how much this fits the community, as you use a lot of terms I'm not inherently familiar with (is there a "welcome guide" of some sort somewhere I missed)

first impression: your post is entirely on topic, welcome to the stubsack

techtakes is a sister sub to sneerclub (also on this instance, previously on reddit) and that one has a bit of an explanation. generally any (classy) sneerful critique of bullshit and wankery goes, modulo making space for chuds/nazis/debatelords/etc (those get shown the exit)

the esteemed poster huffed and puffed at least twice more on their local, which we blessedly don't have to see

such a hilariously pathetic bit of darvo, too. fuckin dipshits.

feels like it’s lining up to be the WinME of this decade

2008 called, it wants the pedantry back

do you see why I take the shortcut?

"hi you seem to be fearing for your life! here's a calming advert"

inb4 "it's just, like, common sense, man"

near-verbatim sealioning in tyol 2024. who says satire is dead

not quite entirely what I had in mind, but it will be interesting to see what happens with that down the way as well