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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.

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

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    Hopefully it elaborates on whatever the fuck this is:

    Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.

    The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.

    Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:

    • ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole” custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
    • replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
    • replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
    • heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
    • revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

    If we couldn’t react with “wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped” or “tag yourself, I’m the false fitness signal in the maid café”, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.

    • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that’s worth

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      i thought for some time now that problems with japanese society are things like stifling conformism, ridiculous degree of nationalism and sexism, how they are functionally an one-party state or stiff strictly hierarchial relationships that appear out of nowhere the entire time. but yeah definitely this seed oils level of conspiracy thinking is accepted truth on eacc twitter

      it also sounds extremely specific

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I dont know enough about Japan, but is it just me or is that a very specific fleshlight gripe? E: yes, I guess, this means I’m tagging myself as the fleshlight or something.

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Menawhile: tenga stock prices soar because apparently their toys are so good that a guy was willing to kill for them to be banned