After a long year, it's finally time. Announcing the Worst Tweets of 2023 Bracket!
I've spent the entire year collecting hundreds of deranged tweets, awful takes, and the most insane discourses on this site. Only 64 were chosen.
Now it's time to crown a champion.
The rules:
* No Elon Musk. It's too easy and would end up being half the bracket.
* We're not just looking for regular bad. We're not looking for normal slapfights.
* We're looking for that special brand of insanity you only get on twitter.
The field of 64 is divided into four regions named after some of our greatest discourses: the Bean Dad region, the Coffee Wife region, the Chili Neighbor region, and a special Israel/Palestine Containment Zone.
The difference between the AOC & Tlaib statements is very interesting if you know what to look for.
I often disagree with AOC but she tends to be the most reasonable of The Squad, and that's on full display here. A short thread on what to look for in statements like these:
First: AOC says directly "I condemn Hamas's attack".
Tlaib does not mention Hamas. It does not mention the attacks directly or condemn them. Reading Tlaib's statement, you literally can't even tell who attacked who.
Second: I know this sounds like insane nitpicking, but AOC says 'Israel and Palestine' while Tlaib says 'Palestinian and Israeli' lives.
These statements are micromanaged *to death*. Putting Palestinian first is absolutely an intentional choice.
There's a type of progressivism that is incredibly concerned with "which groups had voices heard" and "Have we done lots of process and planning" and "did we equitably include all stakeholders", but gives absolutely zero fucks about whether anything gets accomplished.
Progressive cities are basically run on this principle.
Here's a bus stop project in LA that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It won't do anything for anyone, but there was a lot of Fact Finding and Inclusion of Groups Whose Voices Must Be Heard.