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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.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Elon musk voice: 'So euhmmm euuhhh ummm you are ummm euhh saying it has umm some value?'

E: But wait there is more

Tweet from Paul Graham: "Renaming Twitter X doesn't seem to have damaged it. But it doesn't seem to have helped it either. So it was a waste of time and a domain name."

And more

Reply tweet from Elon Musk: "You know nothing"

(And as is tradition when Musk replies to a famous person, the famous person doesn't even react).

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The tragedy of being Elon Musk: he has thousands and thousands of cryptocurrency bros and fascists that worship the ground he walks on, but what he really want is for Stephen King to reply to one of his tweets.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stephen King is busy working him in as a villain in a new novel.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if a social media site turned evil!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I read Cell so reluctantly

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At this point the real plot twist would be if a social media site turned out good.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

always wondered about those "Awful Systems" fuckers

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m gonna change my name to photoselfie and become, allegedly, the fucking worst

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

careful, you might end up buying twitter for 44p

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago