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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

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.

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

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8 points

Zuck wants to get back to his roots

It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here’s what we’re going to do: […] 5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.

Narrator: this announcement did not, in fact, ease concerns about bias.

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Is that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it was…

To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3

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11 points

It’s not. Surprise! All of Silicon Valley has gone mask off in preparation for the new administration in Washington!

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Fascist virtue signalling aside, candy floss should not exist. That’s like the exact opposite of dental care.

Edit: I have been made aware that Candy Floss is another name for cotton candy, which is delicious. Though my point kind of still stands.

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Isn’t this just an economic move dressed up as an ideological one?

If only all those sneaker companies had thought to say they had to move their factories from America to Chinese sweatshops because American workers were too woke.

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4 points

Trick question; it’s both an economic move and an ideological move.

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9 points

Ah i recall somebody got mad when I mentioned traditionally capitalists will team up with fascists.

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10 points

Maybe I was naive, but I didn’t expect all this to go that fast and that blatant…

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7 points

this is going in hard enough that I suspect zuck is not expecting there to be another meaningful election

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7 points

No, I’m with you. Bad feeling about where this is going.

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