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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy Pride :3)

    • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      22 days ago

      I’ve been waiting for this. I wish it had happened sooner, before DOGE could do as much damage it did, but better late than never. Donald Trump isn’t going to screw around, and, ironically, DOGE has shown you don’t need congressional approval or actual legal authority to screw over people funded by the government, so I am looking forward to Donald screwing over SpaceX or Starlink’s government contracts. On the returning end… Elon doesn’t have that many ways of properly screwing with Trump, even if he has stockpiled blackmail material I don’t think it will be enough to turn MAGA against Trump. Still, I’m somewhat hopeful this will lead to larger infighting between the techbro alt-righters and the Christofascist alt-righters.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        Would be best if he treated Musk like how they treated the four icc judges. Sanction Musk. (I heard this has basically destroyed the ICCs ability to do things btw)

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        21 days ago

        I’ve been waiting for this. I wish it had happened sooner, before DOGE could do as much damage it did, but better late than never

        as I said elsewhere (and have from early around the doge announcement): he was never going to last because orange was never going to felon lead, and felon was never going to settle. and everyone who brought him in did so knowing that, but that was fine for them because they were using him as a useful idiot, as a politically useful wrecking ball who they could dump all blame on later and wash their hands of

        DOGE has shown you don’t need congressional approval or actual legal authority to screw over people funded by the government

        this tracks with historical fascist power seizures, although ofc updated in the detail of “let felon run wild, then just accept the outcome and use it as a new precedent”. he provided them with a test run of finding just how egregious they could go without pushback (and thus where they need to machinate more)

        I am looking forward to Donald screwing over SpaceX or Starlink’s government contracts. On the returning end… Elon doesn’t have that many ways of properly screwing with Trump, even if he has stockpiled blackmail material I don’t think it will be enough to turn MAGA against Trump. Still, I’m somewhat hopeful this will lead to larger infighting between the techbro alt-righters and the Christofascist alt-righters.

        overall, same yeah. felon’s long appeared to be comfortable socking for outside influences, so maybe he might go knocking for some more russian/chinese/indian/emirati/whatever war funding, but maaaybe not find some soon enough to prop up his whole house of cards?

        (besides, the entire ai craze is begging in the same corners, which maybe is a good thing in this light)

      • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
        16·
        23 days ago

        Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years …

        Elon Musk thinking he’s going to make it to 90 and more is even more delusional than the Mars stuff.

      • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
        12·
        22 days ago

        I wonder if the US is closing in on the “imprison inconvenient billionaires for tax evasion” stage of managed democracy

      • ShakingMyHead@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Elon’s mother was born in Regina.

        If Canada became the 51st State, that makes Elon the son of an American born citizen and thus eligible for the Presidency.

        If Alberta and Saskatchewan leave Canada (and join the States), this also occurs.