Devin Nunes sues Twitter over mean tweets from parody accounts.
You can’t get more ridiculous than this. Simultaneously complaining that Twitter silences its critics while asking Twitter to silence his critics is a curious legal strategy, but that’s Devin Nunes for you. He’s always been a twit, the kind of kid who probably wore bow ties and carried a briefcase when he was in high school, and being so far up Mango Mussolini’s ass that he can see the back of Mango’s teeth hasn’t made him any less a whiny asshole.
Such a pathetic special little snowflake, wah, parody accounts was *mean* to you! Wah! What a whiny baby!
— Badtux the Soon to be sued by Nunes like rest of Twitterverse Penguin
You’re just hoping to get sued. you want to be on record for the legal torts to be the first blogger to give an entire deposition with both middle fingers raised the whole time.
or is that me? Yeah, that’s me. Where do I go to get sued by Nunyazz?
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I can’t afford the Bay Area (even the benighted outer burbs like where I am now), so retirement may mean he will be my Congress Critter. 😦
Oh well…..
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Then you’ll be able to vote against him! And when he comes to the district for campaign rallies, you can dress up as his mom while displaying appropriately insulting objects such as piss-stained kids’ pants. Tell everyone you kept them to teach Devin a lesson after he peed himself TWICE during the same day in 2nd grade.
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He is one of the truly exemplary proofs that the United States is fully engulfed in its cultural death spiral. What a ridiculous, ridiculous man.
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Indeed. Suing Twitter because parody accounts make fun of you? That’s Putin territory! (Putin just made it illegal in Russia to criticize him in any way, yay).
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The TechCrunch story you linkulated to mentions that Nunes hasn’t done anything more than file the lawsuit yet. So mebbe he’s just doing a bullshit ploy to grab some attention without following through. “New York Times. vs. Sullivan” case sez it’s a sure loser. OTOH, there are always rich reich-wing squillionaires like Peter Thiel who can pay Nunes’ lawyers with their pocket change, just for the shits ‘n giggles of causing correspondingly high legal bills for Twatter (also run by squills…)
Because I like to think in terms of the Big Picture, and I’m currently reading a book by E.O. Wilson (the scientist who came up with the theory of sociobiology) that discusses “eusociality” (the tendency of a very few species such as termites, ants, honeybees, naked mole rats and humans to live together in societies) I am musing on how Nunes’ crapola fits with that. I’ve also been thinking along those lines IRT a lot of the stupid shit that crazy ppl on the psycho wards do and say.
One of Wilson’s points is that to be in a successful social group, animals need to have an awareness of what their fellow animals are thinking. If you don’t know that Worker Bee 1387640 has just done the Figure 8 dance to show the rest of the hive the flight path to the flower patch, or that Og the Caveman is keen on Oog the hot Cavewoman, you’re going to waste a lot of bees’ time or maybe get a hunting club upside your head. Organised society needs its members to imagine what’s in others minds. Otherwise, there’s too much working at cross-purposes and chaos.
Are Nunes and his lawyer incapable of realising how other people will react to a.) the hypocrisy you point out, Tux and b.) how everyone with two brain cells to rub together will be larfing at a filing that cites Urban Dictionary to define “taint” among other things? (And not even very well at that. Several people on the Rude Pundit’s Twitter feed pointed out that men have taints too, and UD only mentions the female taintarea.) Is it a psychological blind spot? Do they just not give a shit what others think, and are only playing to their snowflakegos and/or the (hopefully few) reichy kkkultists who sympathise with their shit?
It’s not just Nunes or crazyppl on the underside of the planet* that I see this in. Take the Christchurch Mosque Massacre-er and the slavering hordes who read websites with anti-Muslim ravings. Are they incapable of envisioning that not everyone will agree? That there’s going to be push-back, and fight-back, and that this will disrupt the functions of the civilisation upon which they depend? Do the Muzzie-haters not see that their beliefs are the same as the Daesh head-choppers who they despise? The Mosque Shooter referred to his act as a terrorist one, so he admits what he is. But is he not able to see that being what you despise is just being another kind of despicable? Is that gonna be “winning”?
There seems to be a lot more self-centred thinking these days, to the detriment of functioning society. Sure, there have always been narcissists and nitwits throughout human history. Perhaps that trend seems bigger than it is because teh Internets tubez amplify dickishness that I would not have seen if I did not encounter the dickheads personally.
Speaking as a Luddite, though, my opinion is that the black mirror world of our mind-absorbing devices makes it easier to be a dick. IRL, the dick4brainez would run into too many normies who’d roll their eyes or say “You’re a fucking idiot” if they spouted their trash to most peoples’ faces. It’s easier these days to communicate the sick shit with other sickos, which reinforces the sickmindset.
And so does eusociality fray, and more bits of sand trickle into the gears of civilisations machinery. Devo was right in the 1970s. We are devolving, one mongoloid at a time…
* (If you’re a NorthPole Supremacist, that is)
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Devin Nunes’ Cow went from a few thousand followers before the lawsuit to well over 200K. It’ll have 250K followers by morning.
smooth move, Devin. Dumbass.
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The Cow now has more followers than Widdle Devin.
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Don’t you mean smooth “mooooooove”?
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Bukko: There is a Sonoma County Dairy that would love to retain you for their advertising campaigns. You can stay in Australia even!
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