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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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.

  • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish
    16·
    4 months ago

    The once and future king + ol’ muskrat give their most sensible total nuclear annihilation takes. Fellas, are we cooked?

    • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
      14·
      4 months ago

      This has to be hands down the absolute dumbest take I’ve seen from Musk ever. Dude has the mental capacity of a boiled pear.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Considering they were saying this while having trouble doing internet radio at scale, a problem basically solved 20 years ago, I’m not sure we should listen to them.

      Related to Musk, Trump and all the other fools. PrimalPoly revealing just how shallow and culture war brainwormed thinker he is.

      Image Description.

      Musk: Happy to host Kamala on an 𝕏 Spaces too PrimalPoly: Suggested questions for Kamala:

      1. How do crypto blockchains work, & why are so many Americans skeptical of Central Bank Digital Currencies?

      2. How would you stop the US gov’t from colluding with Big Tech social media companies to censor Americans?

      3. What is the main cause of inflation?

      4. What is a woman? Description ends, question I have for anybody with a screenreader, does this spoiler method work? And also does the screenreader properly work with the letter: X as used on twitter, namely 𝕏.

      • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago
        1. They don’t & yall are “skeptical” of ID cards because it’s the Mark of the Beast, so go figure
        2. Easy, regulate Big Tech to the ground until there’s only Small-to-Medium Tech left
        3. Air, most of the time.
        4. Your mom.

        Can I be a VP or at least Chief of Staff now

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          “Well If you had read my paper on evolutionary psychology I did while looking at sex workers, accusations of weirdness is a actually sign of …”

      • flavia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Spoilers are an html element so they should work everywhere. Mastodon just shows the text without spoiler or CW. Letters in a different typeface specified by Unicode are announced the same as regular letters for this purpose, emphasis, to the dismay of mathematicians that would want “double-stroke X” to be announced.

    • imadabouzu@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Watching this election has been amazing! LIKE WOAH what a fucking obviously self destructive end to delusion. Can I be optimistic and hope that with EA leaning explicitly heavier into the hard right Trump position, when it collapses and Harris takes it, maybe some of them will self reflective on what the hell they think “Effective” means anyways.

    • mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      They are both stupid men who repeat stuff they hear to make them look good. So the question is who are this time the “very smart people” that are telling numbnuts like these two that nuclear war is survivable - and by extension winnable? Because if that is the US defense establishment, then yeah we might be cooked.

      • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish
        14·
        4 months ago

        I cannot get over the fact that this man child who is so concerned with “the future of humanity” is both out right trying to buy the presidency and downplaying the very real weapons that can easily wipe out 70% of the Earth’s population in 2 hours. Remember ya’ll, the cost of microwaving the world is negligible compared to the power of spicy autocomplete.

    • saucerwizard@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      The Bismarck Analysis crew were sneering at Sagan being a filthy peace activist so I would hazard that the era of ‘survivable nuclear war’ rides again.