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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.

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[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

preview:

reality:

“how to inflate your event by pretending there's more to it” (tbh i wouldn't mind if esr would inflict his pleasant personality on that crowd; and of course the renowned philosopher agnes callard will attend)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah that was exactly what I meant amazing bullshit

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

ESR hasn't blogged for ages,no? I believe his old blog was offline for a long time because lack of TLS/backup or something.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

It got a malware infection and nobody bothered fixing it. By the end its commenters were enjoying long threads entirely composed of dogwhistles.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wildbow: "you know the Empire 88 and the biotinkers were bad guys in Worm right"

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