Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting 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 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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    Racism is insane; it fixates on superficial characteristics like skin color rather than important ones like IQ and time preference.

    Iā€™m sorry, ā€œtime preferenceā€? Is this piece of shit referring to Colored Peopleā€™s Time as a scientific concept or am I missing something?

    This is such a cursed tweet ughhhhh

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      referring to Colored Peopleā€™s Time

      to the what now? What cursed horror beyond my comprehension am I going to learn today?

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        I recommend looking it up. I believe itā€™s a term that has been reclaimed by Black people. Obama referenced it as CPT (in response to some other event) in his 2016 WHC dinner speech.

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      I think that is a reference to the ā€˜eat 1 cookie now or wait, and get 2 cookiesā€™ childrens thing. Racists refer to it often. (This also means the black eat the 1 cookie kids canā€™t build empires bla bla bla).

      (when I search for the term on youtube, it instantly gave me a video linking it to cultural degeneracy for example. Really annoying you canā€™t block channels properly. Also the mises institute has a video on it)

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          (This particular study, if there even is a real study, is infuriating because what itā€™s really measuring is how much you trust a figure of authority to keep their promise. I wonder why black kids would have issues with this!)