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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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  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    Today in you can’t make this stuff up: SpaceX invades Cards Against Humanity’s crowdfunded southern border plot of land.

    Article (Ars Technica) Lawsuit with pictures (PDF)

    Reddit Comment with CAH’s email to backers

    The above Ars Technica article also lead me to this broader article (reuters) about SpaceX’s operations in Texas. I found these two sentences particularly unpleasant:

    County commissioners have sought to rechristen Boca Chica, the coastal village where Johnson remains a rare holdout, with the Musk-endorsed name of Starbase.

    At some point, former SpaceX employees and locals told Reuters, Starbase workers took down a Boca Chica sign identifying their village. They said workers also removed a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon revered by the predominantly Mexican-American residents who long lived in the area.

    Reading all of this also somehow makes Elon Musk’s anti-immigrant tweets feel even worse to me than they already were.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Damn, 3 hours late to the party. Despite my disdain for their game, i can only recall enjoying CAH’s liberal antics.

      • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        CAH is definitely a game you only play with people you’ve known your whole life, isn’t it?

        Once played with randoms at a hacker con and almost died of embarrassment.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Considering the style of humor they have and Musk tries to show, I do wonder how hurt Musk is over all this. And only a matter of time before his sycophants create ‘CAH is dying’ graphs and animal meme images with testicles.