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.
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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.)
Dem pundits go on media tour to hawk their latest rehash of supply-side econ - and decide to break bread with infamous anti-woke "ex" race realist Richard Hanania
A quick sample of people rushing to defend this:
I gave him a long enough chance to prove his views had changed to go read Hanania's actual feed. Pinned tweet is bitching about liberals canceling people. Just a couple days ago he was on a podcast bitching about trans people and talking about how it's great to be a young broke (asian) woman because you can be exploited by rich old (white) men.
So yeah he's totally not a piece of shit anymore. Don't even worry about it.
I almost forgot how exhausting TW was.
At least he is using LLMs to blast away what is left of his critical thinking skills. If the effect is real he will be a vegetable in a week.
tracing going all in on left wing people aren't real they can't hurt you
Dems do literally anything to materially oppose fascism, even in the most minuscule way challenge (impossible)
@swlabr
Are they all truly “Dem pundits”? Or just assumed to be/claim to be?
The pundits in question are Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein. More accurately speaking they are liberals.
@swlabr
Ah okay. I thought one might be Yglesias and who knows where his politics truly are.
Don’t worry, they are buddies