Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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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.
one of the most annoying things about writing for a US audience is they’re fucking illiterate and alluding to books confuses them
wanna grab editors by the throat and go “JUST WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE EVEN DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL”
actual example from today: “who the hell is Fagin never heard of him”
Reading books in US high school was an exercise in frustration. There weren’t many books assigned, and not a lot of them vibed with me. Most of my classmates did the minimum reading they could get away with (and this was before cellphones were everywhere).
Also I once read through the entirety of the Lord of the Flies before the first quiz on it and so got a quiz answer wrong because I got mixed up due to remembering stuff that happened later in the book which I’m still bitter about.
Imagine being afraid of allusions to classic literature in your own native language.
It’s fine to miss a reference. I do it all the time and make my friends do the same. Not getting a reference is not a punishment to you, it’s a bonus to those who do get it.