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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024 (awful.systems)
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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 you’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 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.

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

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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Alternative headline for this Washington Post opinion piece from Jeff Bezos: We're all trying to find the guy who did this!

^more^ ^US^ ^politics^ ^I^ ^know.^ ^There^ ^is^ ^sadly^ ^no^ ^escape^ ^from^ ^the^ ^fiery^ ^vortex^ ^that^ ^is^ ^the^ ^U.S.^ ^election.^

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

no escape

Rest of world: is there no alternative to US hegemony?

CIA: *raises head from pile of blow, puts gun on table* no

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's more like everyone is hungry for content and the POTUS election is a big generator of it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Also most of us speak a lot of English so it is easier to follow than for example Mandarin.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

…and other examples of why there are no alternatives to US hegemony!

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ok actually read the screed. Ahhhh yes good ol’ Jeff “In the years after I bought the WaPo and everyone got suspicious, me and my billions of dollars have done nothing but improve the world and my credibility and definitely didn’t trap anyone in warehouses to die in a tornado, so you all trust me now, right?” Bezos

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right.

I wonder what major world events were happening in the 1930s-1940s that would line up with this...

As it turned out, Meyer did take the side of the Republican party on some issues. He was opposed to FDR's New Deal, and this was reflected in the Post's editorial stance as well as its news coverage, especially regarding the National Recovery Administration (NRA). He even wrote an editorializing "news" story under a fake name

THERE IT IS!

But back to Jeff.

You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests.

Yep. We're protected from intimidation and extortion so long as we pay our dues to the consiglieri when he comes around and don't get too chummy with the cops.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Broke: Simpsons did it first

Woke: OJ Simpson did it first

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

more US politics I know. There is sadly no escape from the fiery vortex that is the U.S. election.

(e: not blaming you, just posting from outside hell)

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