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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.)

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    10 hours ago

    Oh Abundance, the repackaging of Reaganomics by liberals to court conservatives, is having a conference and has booked right wing speakers? Nobody could have predicted this

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      OpenPhilanthropy has been seeding (b) a bit of money to local liberal activist groups but (a) guys to get them to do Abundance shit, under that name, then the guys play coy about the EA agenda

      source: talking to people wondering who the fuck these weirdos were. they said “OpenPhilanthropy” and I went “ohhh boy have I got some disconcerting news for you”

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        6 hours ago

        I looked into this because I was curious. There’s a wikipedia article that discusses abundance, titled “supply-side progressivism”)

        So it appears the earliest mention of liberal tinted Reaganomics is Miles Kimball’s opening blog post “What is a Supply-Side Liberal” on his blog “Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal.” I am not going to investigate his politics at any real depth, so I’d say he’s mostly a liberal/centrist.

        I think my understanding of “abundance” before reading that wiki page was that known liberal quantities Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson wrote a book on it, and therefore must have invented it.

        • Jonathan Hendry@iosdev.space
          6·
          6 hours ago

          @swlabr

          oh no Kimball: "Astral Codex Ten—and its prior incarnation, Slate Star Codex—is one of my favorite blogs. "

          Another link he posted last year: “Richard Hanania’s Argument for Legalizing Euthanasia”

          Also he seems to be more of a “classical liberal” than what people tend to consider a liberal in the left-of-center sense.

          • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
            3·
            3 hours ago

            “Classical liberal” usually registers to me as a libertarian/paleoconservative trying to mainstream themselves.

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
            4·
            4 hours ago

            Ah yes, im a classical liberal of the style of Locke how he thought about slavery, that kind of classical stuff.

          • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
            6·
            5 hours ago

            that’s a big oof from me dawg.

            RE: “liberal” as a label: the way that I define “liberal” is pretty much purely in the classical sense, and it still covers the “modern” “left-of-center” 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 team party can get into power.