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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 17 March 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As suggested at this thread to general "yeah sounds cool". Let's see if this goes anywhere.

Original inspiration:

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)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's like the filter I have to add to any research about anything with an overlap on healthy food (90% of it is new age grifters, manosphere or wooanon, or fatphobia & ableism); gardening, especially native plant gardening (a substantial minority is the intersection of woo-woo and NIMBYs); or martial arts (either manosphere or wooanon, depending on the gender breakdown of the martial art). So much crank.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

oh absolutely! I get too much exposure to the crank side of all of those topics from my family, so I can definitely relate. now I’m flashing back to the last couple of times my mom learned the artificial sweetener I use is killing me (from the same discredited source every time; they make the “discovery” that a new artificial sweetener causes cancer every few years) and came over specifically to try and convince me to throw out the whole bag

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh that was my mom with high fructose corn syrup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

that too! processed sugar was the devil too, as if granulizing cane sugar imbued it with the essence of evil. she also claimed they used bleach to make white refined sugar? I think the end goal was to get me to reject the idea of flavor. joke’s on that lady, my cooking is both much better than hers and absolutely terrible for you