Fuck This Tweet
Last week I happened upon a very bad tweet and it’s been haunting me ever since, filling me with a quiet and persistent rage I can only release through the art of the written word.
Meme Makes Questionable Journey From Neo-Nazi Message Board to Trump's Twitter
On Saturday, Donald Trump posted a meme on Twitter featuring his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s face superimposed on piles of $100 bills, with a Star of David next to her bearing the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” Charges of antisemitism ensued. Obviously. The post was subsequently removed and reposted with…
Trump Literally Fails to Cover Up His Antisemitism on Twitter
Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted a picture of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton featuring a pile of money and the words “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” inside a Star of David, on Saturday.
New York Times Columnist Suggests Housing Homeless in Old Carriage Horse Stables
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio compromised on a campaign promise to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City, offering instead to build the industry a new stable in an existing building. Maybe, a New York Times columnist suggested on Twitter, the city’s homeless can live in the old stables.
The Worst Tweets of 2015
As selected by the staff of Gawker. These tweets are terrible, man.
“Instead of silence or helpfulness, social media pukes out stupidity, virtue-signaling and vicarious ‘enjoyment’...of a terrible tragedy by people thousands of miles away, for whom the event is just a meme they will participate in for a couple of days, then let fade into their timeline.”
Candidate for Minnesota House Ends Campaign After Tweeting That "ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil"
A day after terror attacks left hundreds of casualties across Paris, a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota House tweeted, “ISIS isn’t necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though.” He has since ended his campaign.
Richard Dawkins Absolutely Eviscerates the Texas Clock Kid on Twitter
Influential tweeter Richard Dawkins, whose intellectual rigor never ceases to amaze, makes the very good, necessary, and important point that, in claiming his reassembled clock as an “invention,” Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas teenager arrested last week on suspicion of building a bomb, committed fraud.
On Friday afternoon, Lena Dunham tweeted, “If you say ‘Unfollow’ after I post about Sandra Bland or gun control, I didn’t want you here in the first place.” This is still the only mention of Sandra Bland on Lena Dunham’s Twitter account, but keep fighting the good fight, Lena.http://gawker.com/what-the-hell-…
