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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 so 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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. A lot of people didnā€™t survive January, but at least we did. This also ended up going up on my accountā€™s cake day, too, so thatā€™s cool.)

  • corbin@awful.systemsEnglish
    12Ā·
    10 days ago

    Ammon Bundy has his own little hillbilly elegy in The Atlantic this week. See, while heā€™s all about armed insurrection against the government, heā€™s not in favor of ICE. He wants the Good Old Leppards to be running things, not these Goose-Stepping Nazi-Leopards. He just wanted to run his cattle on federal lands and was willing to be violent about it, yā€™know? Choice sneer, my notes added:

    Bundy had always thought that he and his supporters stood for a coherent set of Christian-libertarian principles that had united them against federal power. ā€œWe agreed that thereā€™s certain rights that a person has that theyā€™re born with. Everybody has them equally, not just in the United States,ā€ he said. ā€œBut on this topic [i.e. whether to commit illegal street violence against minorities] they are willing to completely abandon that principle.ā€

    All cattle, no cap. I cannot give this man a large-enough Fell For It Again Award. The Atlantic closes:

    And so Ammon Bundy is politically adrift. He certainly sees no home for himself on the ā€œcommunist-anarchistā€ left. Nor does he identify anymore with the ā€œnationalistā€ right and its authoritarian tendencies.

    Oh, the left doesnā€™t have a home for Bundy or other Christofascists. Apology not accepted and all that.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      11Ā·
      10 days ago

      Oh, the left doesnā€™t have a home for Bundy or other Christofascists

      Iā€™m willing to accept him if he converts to Communist Anarchism in his heart of hearts and writes a long treatsie on what he thinks that even is.

      • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
        10Ā·
        9 days ago

        i think itā€™s when you and a bunch of other vegans live in a group home together and argue over who does the dishes