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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Foolā€™s in advance.)

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    I knew the HN reaction to Marine Le Pen being banned from being elected to public office would be unhinged, but weirdly I did not have ā€œgood, sheā€™s a woman and weak so now a strong man can lead RN to glorious victoryā€ on my bingo card. More fool me, misogyny is always on the card.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534140

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      Thereā€™s a comment in there about how well it reflects on the British system that Bobby Sands was allowed to stand as an MP for Sinn FĆ©in despite being an IRA member and a prisoner. This ignores that a) Sinn FĆ©in policy was and is not to take seats in the British parliament, so he wouldnā€™t have been voting or sitting on any committees, and b) Bobby Sands died in prison on hunger strike.

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      Why yes, Iā€™m sure 29 year old Jordan ā€œEl italiano 93ā€ Bardella, who 10 years ago was uploading Call of Duty videos to youtube, is a much stronger candidate.