Twitter is one of those places where being sober puts one at an instant disadvantage. With a glass of whisky in hand, the talk seems somewhat less tedious, the company less ugly and the tweets of Femi Oluwole not so ineffably stupid.
More fool me, then, for going on there as sober as a judge last week and making the – quite anodyne, I thought – point that Ash Sarkar, the woman who once proclaimed to ‘f*ck like a champion’, is hardly the quiet, retiring type. This soon aroused the rancour of her rancid groupies and before I knew it, I found myself mobbed: ‘Bald blokes hate it when BAME members have the audacity to have confidence’ wrote one. Another put his condemnation in somewhat more terse terms: ‘f*ck off you bald w*nker’.
This needlessly taxing encounter forced me into asking THE question that is never asked but should OFTEN be asked, would Twitter not be a better place if when applying for an account one first had to pass some form of mental health assessment?
Alas, one need only see Twitter’s answer to Bertha Mason, Carole Cadwalladr, and her 580k strong repertoire of dribbling bedlamites to conclude that sanity really doesn’t sell. And even if Twitter were to screen for sanity, to see what passes for psychiatry on there one wonders if the lunatics have not already taken over the asylum…
Only last week a high-flying criminal psychiatrist by the name of Bandy X Lee took to Twitter to exalt the virtues of Adolf Hitler: ‘He improved the daily life of his followers, had discipline, and required more of himself to gain the respect of his followers’, she opined. This would have no doubt caused worldwide condemnation had she not then gone on to argue that it was for this reason that Donald Trump is actually worse than Hitler. Ordinarily, someone like Miss Lee would be regarded as a crank and routinely ignored, but Twitter seems to have a mystic draw to cranks as Brighton does gays, and soon enough she had progressive supporters making the point that ‘no, actually, considering Trump, Hitler wasn’t so bad’. Such hot takes were of course adorned with hashtags of #BidenIsMyPresident and lurid fisting emojis.
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