Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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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 so 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.)
Last week 404 Media reported on some DOGE deposition videos.
The videos were since removed via court order, but are available on Internet Archive.
For anyone unfamiliar: this slots under TechTakes because DOGE is basically Elon Musk's army of naive fascist silicon valley tech-bros rampaging about the federal government with Chat-GPT, SQL, and unsecured thumb-drives.
This article is behind a paywall, but links to the following video snippets from the depositions:
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVtOiqJjcu4/ https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVyhJT9jf4f/
For example here Justin Fox talks about deleting federal grants that he considered in-scope for an anti DEI executive order: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVtOiqJjcu4/
Q: "Why is a documentary about Holocaust survivors DEI"
A: "It's the gender based story 🤷 that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group 🙄."
Q: "It's inherently discriminatory to focus on what specific group?"
A: "The gender based. So, females 🤷 during the Holocaust."
He goes on to clarify that it's DEI because it focuses on Jewish women. Oh that's OK then!
There is a lot of video to work through but I know there is more ~~comedy gold~~ rage inducing punchable nazi snippets within.
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1rrhzhc/doge_lead_in_deposition_details_how_he_emailed/
Behold: the Silicon Valley masters of opsec.
"Do you think there's a reason why the DSA didn't allow you to use Signal or other apps on your government phone?"
"No."
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE "S" STANDS FOR YOU IGNORANT CHILD??
Just gonna file this on my mental list of reasons I didn't go into law.