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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
An hackernews responds to the call for "more optimistic science fiction" with a plan to deport the homeless to outer space
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840786
this and the pro slavery reply might be the most overt orange site nazism I've seen
Astro-Modest Proposal
What a piece of shit
Interesting that "disease is hardly a problem anymore" yet homeless people are "typically held back by serious mental illness".
"It's better to be a free, self-sustaining, wild animal". It's not. It's really not. The wild is nothing but fear, starvation, sickness and death.
Shout out to the guy replying with his idea of using slavery to solve homelessness and drug addiction.
My goodness, can this guy be more of a condescending asshole?
Ok, he can 🤢
Edit: I cannot stop thinking about the 'no rich inner world' part, this is so stupid. So, with the number of homeless people increasing, does that mean:
Personally, I go with the last one.
this is completely unvarnished, OG, third reich nazism, so I'm pretty sure it's the first, except without the faking it part: I expect his view to be that if you had examined future homeless people closely enough it always would have been possible to tell that they were doomed subhumans
Oh man I used to have all kinds of hopes and dreams before I got laid off. Now I don't even have enough imagination to consider a world where a decline in demand for network engineers doesn't completely determine my will or ability to live.
Also hard to show a rich inner world when you are constantly in trouble financially, possessions wise, mh and personal safety and interacting with someone who could be one of the bad people who doesnt think you are human, or somebody working in a soup kitchen for the photo op/ego boost. (This assumes his interactions go a little bit further than just saying 'no' to somebody asking for money).
So yeah bad to see hn is in the useless eaters stage.