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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 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

The replies are gloriously butthurt.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not just ratioed, his tweets get, for the amount of followers he has, an low amount of likes and retweets, exceptions seeming to be his stolen meme posts (The fascist hard times one was very scare with over a million of likes), esp considering the amount of views.

Goes to show how much of the views/follower count is just worthless padding.

E: unrelated to the ratio of Musk, but related to Musk so only worth an edit, he is claiming the advertisers not wanting to advertise is a RICO case. Poor Popehat.

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Seeing that, I too immediately thought, in popehat voice, "It's not RICO."