This is my favorite Twitter personality type.

Timeline contains only retweets of other people’s content.

Makes no attempt to offer anything at all of substance.

Thinks I am supposed to care deeply about his “criticism”.

I have some bad news, Kevin.
90+% of the content on Twitter is posted by <10% of the accounts.

There is nothing wrong with that.

There is nothing wrong with being a content consumer.

Reading someone else’s content doesn’t obligate them to indulge your criticism though.
A lot of people on here truly believe by following someone they’ve given that person something of value that the person is now indebted to earn or repay.

When you follow someone, you are the one receiving something you have decided is of value: their content.
If you come to think their content isn’t valuable, don’t follow them.

It isn’t personal. Read what you want to read. See what you want to see.

I routinely change who and what I’m reading as news and events change. That is what you are supposed to do. Tend your “following” list.
And I sometimes lose interest in an account or no longer want to see what they have to say.

I would never in my wildest dreams imagine telling them how I think they should change what and how they think, write or express themselves to please me.
No one owes us satisfaction here.

We aren’t customers. We aren’t subscribers. We are all readers of other people’s free content.

We get to choose who to follow and what to read. That’s it.

Have thoughts on how to do better? Awesome. Go do it.

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More from @TheRealHoarse

13 Nov
I just can’t even begin to express how badly it will go if you try to condescend to me.

That will go badly. How is that not known.

I can list on one hand the times I was so embarrassingly wrong, people condescending to me were entirely right.

They left a mark.

1/
One time, I spouted what I now know to be completely wrong bullshit about whether grinding up Adderall had a real effect.

Actual doctors smacked me around. I found it embarrassing. I deserved it.

2/
Another time, I got way out over my skis in an argument about intelligence warrants and one of the final executive orders Obama signed before leaving office.

@MalcolmNance unfollowed me over it. I deserved it. I was out of my lane and should have shut the fuck up.

3/
Read 5 tweets
12 Nov
My last little snarkogram of the morning:

When people tell you that they are deeply afraid of where things are heading, that actually isn’t fun for them.

People don’t actually enjoy having founded, rational anxiety about real things they can easily list and explain.

1/
Responding to someone anxiously yelling “Fire!” by accusing them of just enjoying yelling “Fire!” is asinine.

It is fucking asinine.

That person entered the room thinking you probably just hadn’t smelled the smoke yet.

They thought you just hadn’t gotten a whiff of it.

2/
When there is a fire, you don’t wait for everyone to independently smell the smoke and unanimously agree that it is indeed smoke rather than just bacon maybe.

The people who smell it first go and warn other people.

That’s kind of the whole idea of yelling “Fire!”

3/
Read 9 tweets
11 Nov
“Temporarily” means the appeals court just pissed all over the lower court’s effort to move this along and will now sit on this for three weeks before even holding a hearing.

Every aspect Dems control has moved absurdly slowly. This committee needs to get its ass in gear.

1/
It should not have taken months and months and months to issue subpoenas.

It should not be nearly the end of 2021 with witnesses we know will ignore subpoenas not yet even scheduled to testify.

2/
We are in serious fucking trouble yet the combination of the House committee and the impotent absentee currently holding the Attorney General title are taking their sweet fucking time like they weren’t racing against a clock that expires a year from now.

3/
Read 4 tweets
8 Nov
The Attorney General is the People’s lead attorney.

We are his clients.

If he isn’t communicating with us, he isn’t talking to his clients. That is insufficient.
And for every attorney who is now going to reflexively run into my mentions to insist an AG cant talk to the public because of <reasons>, that is utter bullshit.

There is absolutely nothing barring an AG from speaking about overall priorities above individual cases.
And there is absolutely nothing whatsoever barring an Attorney General or Department of Justice from staffing a competent communications office fronted by a compelling spokesperson.

There COULD BE a Jen Psaki of the DOJ.
Read 7 tweets
7 Nov
So, we’re walking out of this crowded venue and from behind me, I hear a couple of dumbfucks chant “Let’s go, Brandon” and then “Fuck Joe Biden”.

So, I respond with a one-man chant of “Fuck your mother” without turning around.

My friend cringes and says “Mike, don’t.”

1/
From behind me I hear “Oh, it’s a lib.”

And then they didn’t say another word. Because any adult using code like “Let’s go, Brandon” is a punk-ass bitch trying to flex like they’re brave when they’re actually weak-ass clowns.

2/ Image
Now, bear in mind, I’m wearing a salmon pullover; am a scant 175 lbs; and haven’t been in a fight since eighth grade.

Punkass clowns aren’t about to step up to you though.

Dipshit little fucks like these two yell shit in a crowd specifically because they need a crowd.

3/
Read 4 tweets
4 Nov
My 13-YO was telling me a story tonight about how one of the friends in his group has said some things lately the group isn’t quick to forgive.

Then, out of the blue, he added:

“It’s like your sanding board. It leaves holes, you know?”

1/
It took a minute to process what he was talking about and then, oh my god, my parental ass broke out in the biggest smile…

The sanding board…

There’s a story there.

2/
When my son was six, he went through a completely age-appropriate little stretch where he would say something he didn’t mean in the heat of the moment.

Typical hyperbolic kid stuff in the heat of being mad.

“You’re the worst parent ever.” That kind of thing.

3/
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