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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 so 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.)

  • @e8d79 @BlueMonday1984

    In the linked thread (currently on the second page) someone called mendax, who is defending Artist, says:

    tango is an entitled DEI hire who’s just short of demanding reparations for getting the boot from Artix

    Someone called mikadonakado then replies with:

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you are a luddite, you are the lefty DEI hire, or whatever. Every luddite and neo-luddite community is tied to ShareBlue and CCP in some way. The CCP is behind the push to not build more data centers and slow down AI development.

    Meanwhile everyone who is a libertarian and everyone who loves Javier Milei also loves AI. You can point out some exceptions, but in general, this statement is completely true. You cannot be a luddite and then accusing other people of being DEI hires.

    So this seems like an absolutely delightful community.

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      It’s an anti-systemd distribution, so pretty much expected to be 80% fascist by weight. (15% assorted cranks, 5% embedded developers.)

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      it’s what you usually get when you cross anti-systemd cranks with anti-wayland and anti-freedesktop cranks.

      (cranks being the operative word.)