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 youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Foolā€™s in advance.)

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    Wow, thatā€™s some venomously hateful text.

    new york city truly is a first and fourth word city overlayed atop each other

    Jesus Christ learn what words mean. Even if you use ā€œThird Worldā€ to mean ā€œpoor countriesā€, fourth world is not a thing and people living in extreme poverty in developing countries are in fact not better off than non Wall Street New Yorkers.

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      Assuming the common use of third world to mean ā€œpoor countriesā€, then I suppose a ā€œfourth worldā€ country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.

      But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.

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      Itā€™s easy to read it as first and fourth ā€œworldā€ but itā€™s actually first and fourth ā€œwordā€. But the first and fourth word of what? Mein Kampf? The 18 words?

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      well ackthscthually after 9/11, the whole world got isekaiā€™d where everyone exists in a game-like status point system. The 1st world is reserved for the top rank of humans, the n+1th world is worse than the nth world. IQ points = your int stat. This is just how it is, sorry