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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.

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13 points

my local community radio station is getting in on the act with a quality sneer in their annual magazine:

What if the Silicon Valley creeps who control huge swathes of our existence decided that they didn’t want this to be their legacy? Well, one solution would be to guarantee the survival of the species by uploading our brains into computers and rocketing them into space. If a few people cark it in the climate catastrophe, it’ll be fine as long as there’s a big cyber noggin down the track… just google TESCREAL. We didn’t make this up.

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5 points

3CR! You should pitch a Sneer Club show to them.

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4 points

didn’t think anyone would catch this! I might have to at this rate, there’d be no shortage of material…

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I had just been looking at their website or I wouldn’t have caught it, lol.

I think Yeah Nah Pasaran have done some coverage of technofascism and TESCREAL.

You should definitely pitch a show. You could have an evil AI as a co-presenter.

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10 points

big cyber noggin? @Soyweiser@awful.systems

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11 points

Walks into the room, hits the top of the doorframe, making sounds like a gallon of water being sloshed around

You called?

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Before anybody asks, pump didn’t work out. Doing saline injections now, read on SSC it would work.

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