Twitter C/D

The first columnist who can compare the Ukraine invasion to the UPenn swim team gets a no prize

ban all blue checks for the next month

🐦[Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk, everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls?
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 28, 2022🕸]🐦

national tv correspondents are the source of so many of the very worst takes

if you get all your news online its easy to forget how bad tv is

Are you freaks just sitting around in the NBC Slack fantasizing about how bold it would be to start World War III https://t.co/UVsnjDSL0H

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) February 28, 2022

I understand at least the frustration that this is happening and feeling helpless to stop it, but cosplaying an 80s action film with C Thomas Howell to your Twitterbase is a pretty bad look.

I'm a pacifist and I want there to be some simple way to solve this but it's naive to think it exists.

(Ukraine thread has been mega helpful the last few weeks)

"Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980," Hillary Clinton says. "It didn't end well for the Russians...but the fact is, that a very motivated, and then funded, and armed insurgency basically drove the Russians out of Afghanistan." pic.twitter.com/iirtXI4vz4

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 1, 2022

The Internet’s Response To Ukraine Has Been Peak Cringe

Like a rich child opening presents on Christmas day.

More Stingers to Ukraine! More javelins! More drones!

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 1, 2022

Rare Pokemons!

pokemon go to war

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E01/1263278.jpg?b64lines=IE1PUkUgRlJJRU5EUyEgTU9SRQogQUxMSUVTISBNT1JFLCBJIFNBWSEgSEFORwogVEhPU0UgV0hPIFRBTEsgT0YgTEVTUyE=

Thanks Buzzfeed, now I know what a “thirst trap” is. I’m gonna go throw up.

that's an interesting reaction to learning what a thirst trap is

on the other hand i'm just discovering lil bubby child

https://twitter.com/lilbubbychild

I haven't noticed Raymond Pettibon tweet in a couple of years before the Ukraine invasion and hoo boy should he have kept that streak going.

feel like we’re getting meltdown may early this year. meltdown march!

I believe this is called ‘tweeting through it’

Their arguments reminded me of MLKs frustration with the "moderates" while he sat in jail in Birmingham. That's who I had in mind when I wrote that tweet. Let me quote him. 8/

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 3, 2022

omfg

OH FUCKING DIE MCFAUL

is there an official name for mediocre white people invoking MLK in a way that doesn't remotely support what they were tweeting in an effort to earn a mic drop on Twitter

or shall we call it McFauling

Pika pika!

pic.twitter.com/D8whnr948I

— (((SpartanADIII-666))) (@davidson_iii) March 3, 2022

Can you just shut the fuck up, PLEASE. You follow me, so I know you'll see this. Shut up with your idiotic calls from your DC mansion for others to risk their lives.

— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) March 2, 2022

twitter updating me on Ukraine daily as notifications despite my clicking the "show less of this" button every time

I don't mean on the TL but as a notification

https://i.ibb.co/cvn9BFD/Screenshot-20220303-134559.jpg

a bit unfair since McFaul is like the millionth person to do this

yr not wrong, but gotta be named after someone y'know

Michael Brooks invented his Anti-SJW MLK character in reaction to that

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FM8oqM4XIAEhprs?format=png&name=small

BUT

but then we get to plan out our outfits for hot girl nuclear summer

dead girl nuclear winter

loll

that guy noah pinion is one of the worst out there, also hes got me blocked so i have to open an incognito tab to just see his terrible tweets

The food is awful! And such small portions!

"nuclear war is not as bad as how it's been depicted in the media" has become a widespread mantra amongst those that prefer intervention/direct military engagement with Russia the past few weeks.

"the whole human race won't be eradicated, only about 70%!"

this is why i advocate for the end of twitter

twitter will never end it is the cockroach of websites

What does it feel like in Europe rn? Pediatricians in Vienna are giving out free iodine tablets. My best friend in Germany tells me her phone is blowing up w/moms trying to figure out right dosage for their kids if worst happens. Docs also telling parents to "seal your windows."

— Rachel Martin (@rachelnpr) March 4, 2022

banned in Russia, according to the Guardian

This is Putin’s “at least he made the trains run on time” moment.

Kick Russia out of NATO https://t.co/fSSxL87Kmw

— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) March 4, 2022

perfect tweet

<3

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNNwIMXXwAMgtbf.jpg

STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust
BAYLESS: Absolutely
STEPHEN A: BUT!

— Gas, Grass, or Story Mode (2021) no one rides f (@Hegelbon) July 25, 2014

some idiot from the Manchester Evening Post interviewed a Ukrainian WW2 veteran ("the most remarkable man I’ve ever met") who "fought against Stalin". Nothing to add!

Deactivated my account today. Totally fed up with it, I was neither better informed nor entertained by it.