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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3940 thread views

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More negatively, on the internet I've noticed an increasing tendency, here as well, to hate when anyone else is having fun or enjoying themselves.

I have very occasionally appreciated something posted on Sneerclub, but the thing is, they are not in any way "having fun." Sure, the story they tell themselves is that they are loling at the rationalist lolcows, but the reality is that they're full of bile and bad faith and they're trashing people out of spite, not fun. The entire sub is what our "boo outgroup" rule is meant to discourage in action.

I think you got me backwards, I meant that the rationalists et Al are having fun, doing their own thing, and that the sneerclubbers can't stand that.

This is apparent in some of the more outre criticism, there and elsewhere, of things like yud's sex life. It drives them nuts that he is getting laid, that some fat dropout wrote an elaborate Harry Potter fanfiction and made a life out of it while they have to grind away at their boring jobs and can't get anyone to swipe right on them.

As someone who'll say the same whether it's KF or SneerClub: tomato, tomato. If there's a line between "having fun" making fun of people, and just doing so to be cruel, it's thin enough to permeable.

I don't think SC is actually having fun. I think the "massive, seething inferiority complex" element makes having fun a very tall order.

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