Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
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Fuck it, off-the-cuff prediction: I expect resistance to Silicon Valley is gonna turn violent during Trump's term.
MOD NOTE: we ask people not to post detailed discussions of how one might conduct terrorism on awful.systems
Ok but how detailed can we get then
Insufficiently!
i see you remain an optimist https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-people-in-the-world-are-making-a-ton-of-money-after-trumps-victory-2000521095
I mean, if there exists sufficiently motivated opposition I'm given to understand that guns and improvised explosives aren't broadly limited by cost. The fact that the market is failing to correct (or more accurately, the human costs aren't impacting the finances) might end up being further motivation for more kinetic action.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this line of thought.
well, people have been making these things for hundreds of years by now, but there are some other restrictions, some of which are cultural
I sincerely hope I’m wrong about this line of thought.
If the tech industry is implicated in Trump's election in any way, I suspect you'll be proven right.
I mean, I don't think that there's the same kind of preexisting social/political/economic infrastructure to support that kind of terrorism on the left as the militia movement on the right, which I think is going to be what prevents things from devolving into outright violence.
imo the most important part of that infrastructure is mass surveillance