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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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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

for all your life size cardboard cutout Sam Bankman-Fried needs

https://standeestore.com/products/copy-of-aaron-judge-ny-yankees-70-tall-cardboard-cutout-standee-party-decor-67

(that URL sure tells a story in itself)

spotted by swlabr

[–] witty@mstdn.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard I saw the first post and did not realize one could actually buy this...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

surprisingly affordable too

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

TIL that Neoreaction A Basilisk has a tag on AO3. Only two works so far, but I'm sure we can improve on that.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bostrom did a weird authoritarian longtermist suggestion.

(this is why im not a huge fan of the tescreal term, as this muddies the water quite a lot as this is a longtermist 'what about the tiny existential risk' thing rubbing against the transhumanist biohacking style stuff).

Sorry no nitter as I forgot the correct url (and also I heard the people behind the new nitter might suck a lot, as in they might be far right, but only heard that once so please don't take that as a confirmation, and more a me asking about it).

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

fuck me what

edit: LOL they had a data breach. Seems like that's a hard req to be a right-wing forum these days. https://globalextremism.org/post/poast/

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

there are few non-poast nitter instances barely limping along, but unless it actually comes back I think the best policy is to link normal twitter and let individuals manage what nitter instances, if any, they want to use:

https://status.d420.de/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

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