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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
@smiletolerantly @BlueMonday1984 Not just me then. I haven’t watched S2E3 yet. But S2E1 was bad, and S2E2 as just more of the same badness.
And then I realised what I was watching. “Midsomer Murders In Space”. Given all the repertory Brit actors doing their usual minimal acting thing, just in silly clothes.
Same actually, have not brought myself to watch E03 yet.
I think seeing the “hype” about just how “great” and “peak” this season is is really doing me in. Insanity. It’s really, really hard to find a negative opinion, and that makes me feel like I am the crazy one.
(Though I think they overdid it. 99% critic score on rotten tomatoes? Yeah, sure… The audience score started out comparably, unrealistically high and has been starting to drop since yesterday evening.)
Anyways, I’m done with Star Wars. Just… done. Which is sad. But not really that sad either.
@smiletolerantly @BlueMonday1984
Watched S03. Did feel it was finally beginning to get somewhere, but oh so slowly. Mostly just embarrassing. NY Jewish Mamas in 2025. Really?
One series of Mandalorian, one series of Andor, Rogue One. All the rest of the spin offs have been rubbish. Even Rogue One was really just a reprise of the very first movie.
I’m done.