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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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

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10 points

it is funny as fuck, though

on which note: I would love to see a kind of “double-blind” experience where a pile of (ideally, more clever/clueful) muskrats get to interact with felon (without knowing that they are), and then watch the fallout as they all go “wtf is this dumbass I’m speaking to”

I’m thinking something in the survivor-y format of shows

probably wouldn’t ever happen, felon’s too fucking proud (and would 10000000% rig the game to own image advantage). but in a perfect world where this happened, oh wouldn’t that just be some great television

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8 points

this is the best idea on the internet, actually

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aww schucks 😳

(I have a whole suit of gameshow ideas for felon to participate in tbh; the magic formula is “just make him do anything at all that requires a tiny bit of specific detail” combined with literally anything else, with a 7/10 “oh yeah no sorry the wifi isn’t working and cell reception is bad down here[0]” layout. guaranteed comedic success.)

[0] - jammas b rokin

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