Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
So there was a big, vaguely described, public kerfuffle at a beach in my city, so I logged onto Xitter to see what happened. The first (and only relevant post) was from a sinister-ish sounding bluecheck. Low and behold, I found that he writes to the Unz review.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526210416/https://www.unz.com/article/the-worlds-greatest-boxer-is-a-white-man/ Itās all about Usyk, a heavyweight boxer whoās considered a pound for pound great. Usyk is a great boxer, undoubtedly. But this article is strangely constructed, borderline pointless, and brazenly racist (shocker). And honestly, reading the comments, I think the authorās just trying to cope with the fact that black boxers tend to be popular.
I donāt think racist cope on its own is even worth a stubstack, but this one take is especially stupid:
To those unfamiliar with combat sports, I canāt emphasize enough how weird it is to say that the heavyweight champ is the best boxer, period. Skill - irrespective of raw strength - is super important to boxers and other people who participate in combat sports. To the point that any fan ranking a pro boxer will likely talk about āPound for poundā (p4p) greats, not the objectively strongest fighters. And right now the unofficial p4p great is a sub 5ā6" Japanese boxer Naoya āMonsterā Inoue. This man is a beast. I donāt need to glaze him any harder, just google him or look up what people think on reddit. Weirdly enough, heās not mentioned once.
Hell, he doesnāt mention Gervonta āTankā Davis at all. Heās half an inch shorter than Inoue, but heās also considered a p4p great and is known for his high boxing IQ. As a matter of fact, he doesnāt mention Terence Crawford - 5ā8" also considered a p4p great - at all either. Hmmm.
And here are my favorite sneers from the comment section
This guy gets fucking dunked on for not reading the room and claiming that black guys might actually be better boxers, genetically.
And this guy thinks that weight classes are for wokies.
Honestly, Iām starting to think this post was threadworthy just from the comment section alone.
This used to be a Joe Rogan staple: no weight classes, no time limits and the ring should be the size of a basketball court.
Itās really just the umpteenth reiteration of the meathead mantra of how Iād do really well in [popular combat sport] if it werenāt for those pesky rules holding me back.
Fucking lmao. Imagine being as big as Joe and wanting to fight in a ring the size of Kansas where you canāt go the distance.
You def wouldnāt need weightclasses though, the featherweights would just have to run until the heavyweights pass out from dehydration/exhaustion. Itād be like the hunger games
ah, xitter. āblacks,ā conversations with āalt right moderateā + colin wright tagged in, and āmen being of different sizes is woke.ā what a site EDIT: Iām a fool this isnāt xitter
And despite the fact that whatshisname wants to secure a future for himself and his heavyweight white children, he doesnāt capitalize āwhiteā at any point. To be honest that was the only part that was surprising.
āJared Taylor fanā
When you want to replace the dogwhistles with foghorns.
Iāve never heard of these boxers, but this was pretty funny
(mispelling in original)
Shocking that a pro boxer named Fury is a better human being than some self-proclaimed racist blogger.
Irish Travellers/MincƩir are hugely discriminated against in both Britain and Ireland. I would tell this guy to go crack a book but he would probably just write another racist article about Travellers.
E: I just had a fĆ©ach at Tyson Furyās wikipedia page and apparently he was named after Mike Tyson.
Echoing the audienceās fawning of heavyweight boxers is probably the least objectionable thing in this racist shitheap of an article, I like how it ends by basically saying people should shut up about the judges possibly favoring Usyk for being Ukrainian, not because thatās just Tyson fans coping but because the current notable russian heavyweights are either icky muslims or not full whites by parentage.
P4P is mostly a marketing term anyway, size aside the meta is different enough between distant weight classes to really strain comparison.
Idk if heavyweights are the big thing right now. Tank and Inoue are some of the most popular fighters right now. Hell, look at Ryan Garcia, heās the talk of the town. Everyone watched him v Haney and Garcia not even that big
or good! I feel like if you asked the average young man who his favorite fighter was, they might not even be welterweightWow the Unz review seems like a very cursed site.
Case in point: Steve Sailer references RMS: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510121546/https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-m-stallman/
itās a site combining all the racism with a very useful archive of 20th century magazine copyright violations