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 youāll 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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@swlabr
oh no Kimball: "Astral Codex Tenāand its prior incarnation, Slate Star Codexāis one of my favorite blogs. "
Another link he posted last year: āRichard Hananiaās Argument for Legalizing Euthanasiaā
Also he seems to be more of a āclassical liberalā than what people tend to consider a liberal in the left-of-center sense.
āClassical liberalā usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.
@istewart
Yes this. Libertarian yahoos in waistcoats. āIām not one of those people, I am dignified.ā
thatās a big oof from me dawg.
RE: āliberalā as a label: the way that I define āliberalā is pretty much purely in the classical sense, and it still covers the āmodernā āleft-of-centerā sense, because someone who claims to be a left-liberal that still supports the underlying liberal politics is actually disconnected from any actual leftist ideology. Most left-liberals are willing to throw actual leftists and leftist causes under the bus so that their
sports teamparty can get into power.@swlabr
When I said ārepackaged by conservatives to court liberalsā I was using āliberalā in the common sloppy American sense where it just means someone on the center left to left, as opposed to the āprogressive shop talkā sense of āratfucking centristsā.
Ah yes, im a classical liberal of the style of Locke how he thought about slavery, that kind of classical stuff.