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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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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] istewart@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Isn't that how the Zizians got going? Or was that uni-hemispheric partial sleep or some such thing

(or, more realistically in both cases, simply escalating quantities of amphetamines)

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

e/acc-elerating doses of amphetamines

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i'm pretty sure that there's an obscure stimulant that is some kind of giga-meth that lasts for 2d or more, that'd be more suitable for them

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

i looked up and it's not one but at least two, but anticholinergics will keep them more grounded

[–] rook@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Polyphasic sleep was a thing for a while. Was that it?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not sleeping on the job, I'm solving problems by lucid dreaming.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

first read as lucid screaming