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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 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.)

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    I saw this, so now you all get to: Alex Karp performs a stationary Gatotsu with a sabre, don’t ask me why.

    E: reference explainer and visual description

    The Gatotsu is a fictional swordfighting style from the manga/anime series Rurouni Kenshin wielded by Saitou Hajime, one of the main characters. It also refers to the frequent stance and movement Hajime makes when fighting.

    In the video, Alex Karp stands next to a young woman. One may surmise that he is trying to impress her with a display of sword mastery. In his right hand he is holding a broad, curved sword, maybe a sabre. His left arm is outstretched at shoulder height in front of him, pointing at an imaginary target, and the sword is pointing at the same target, held at the same height with the flat side parallel to the ground. He performs an awkward looking thrust, as if mimicking the Gatotsu as mentioned above. In the rest of the video he is playing around with the sword, sometimes performing the same thrust and otherwise tossing it limply around in his hand.

    There is text at the top of video reading:

    Your CEO: Powerpoint

    Palantir CEO:

      • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        10 hours ago

        The dub on that video is truly something, lmao. I counter with this:

        毎日牙突、どれの式、ラララ〜

        (to the tune of the mameshiba jingle)

        • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          oh is that the “autodub” feature? I can only imagine lol, even the auto-subtitles without translation are all sorts of wrong for Japanese. I’m using the “tubular” app for youtubo and it mercifully blocks the dubbings

          • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
            3·
            6 hours ago

            noted! The dub was so bad i didn’t even think about whether or not it was autodubbed. Fortunately, through the combination of my rapidly fading japanese language skills, experience in code switching between english and other languages, and the spirit of aku-soku-zan, I managed to understand a lot of it beyond the premise itself.