Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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 facts of Awful youā€™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 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 soo 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.

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    @self

    This is one of those David Icke things where youā€™re not sure if reptilians/fairies/aliens mean reptilians/fairies/aliens or if theyā€™re some kind of code or euphemism.

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      If you always bet on ā€œeverything confusing that weirdos say is a euphemism or proxy for Jews or Black peopleā€, you will beat the house. Canadians, lizards, trans people, common punctuation marks, apparently also the seelie court I guess.

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      having unfortunately known several David Icke fans: itā€™s always veiled antisemitism, and the veil gradually disappears the more you let them talk

      e: yes, the area I live in is teeming with various flavors of conspiracy nut, why do you ask

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        I vaguely remember his original car crash on Wogan after he went loopy and it was barely veiled antisemitism even then - lizard people and the like

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          ā€œah ah but he wrote books - that surely canā€™t be the works of a person frothing in racism!ā€ is something Iā€™ve heard from a surprising number of people Iā€™ve met

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            if racism made people illiterate every facebook group and every youtube comment section would look completely different