Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

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.

  • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    nsfw, and at a risk of beating a dead horse, but this article, although brief, does a decent job at connecting the dots between “silicon valley pronatalism” and regular ol’ nationalism/white supremacy, while debunking some of their EA bullshit too

    The Collinses are leading spokespeople for a movement called pronatalism, popular in Silicon Valley. Elon Musk, a father of 11, is one of its leading proponents. “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,” Musk tweeted.

    Demographers disagree: there is no collapse, and one is not even predicted. Such evidence has not stopped the rise of pronatalism in response to an imagined “population bomb.”

    In short, the problem for pronatalism is not declining reproduction, but who is reproducing. Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicity… Here, nationalism tips into ethnonationalism and reproductive debates descend into violent racism.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      and at a risk of beating a dead horse

      None of us are doctors, so we cannot declare the horse legally dead. So please keep beating it so it doesn’t stand back up and turn us all into paperclips.

      E: it also was a good article.

    • elilla&, remarkable travesti@transmom.love
      14·
      6 months ago

      @jax @froztbyte

      small domino: Scott Alexander confessing to his friend that he’s learned a lot from the reactionaries, including that beating children up is the best way to educate them

      (dominoes toppling…)

      big domino: "And a Guardian journalist witnessed Malcolm [Collins] strike their two-year-old across the face for misbehaviour, a parenting style they apparently developed based on watching “tigers in the wild”. "

      just rationalist things

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        Yeah.

        I had parents that did this shit (and more). Emphasis on “had”: I walked the fuck away from the whole goddamn lot.

        Does my fucking head in to see this kind of shit not only being given airtime but done so without criticism in the coverage.

      • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        I don’t understand why the wife does not simply consume her husband, a parenting style I’ve developed from observing the noble praying mantis in the wild.