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one_voice

(20,043 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:25 AM Apr 2015

An Anti-Hillary Campaign On Twitter Gets Taken Over With Classic Sarcasm

When Hillary Clinton announced her presidential campaign on April 12, many Republicans were ready to respond through social media. They weren’t ready for sarcastic participation from non-Republicans, though, who quickly took over the #WhyImNotVotingForHillary hashtag game on Twitter. And these dark-humored responses outweighed tweets from conservative participants so much that the top entry in this hashtag category, leading it in both retweets and favorites, comes from a progressive crasher.

The progressive responses to this still-ongoing game aren’t necessarily in support of Clinton’s presidential bid, either. They’re simply anti-GOP, and are based on the fact that the Republicans’ contributions to the theme’s intended goal are only on subjects of “Benghazi” and “Lewinsky” and other nut-jobbiness.

Here are some of the sarcastic standouts from #WhyImNotVotingForHillary:

‘Merica And Jeebus Unite!

Taking on the GOP’s pseudo-religious stances was easy pickings for some participants.

Some Of My Best Friends Have Boobs.

Many of the anti-Hillary participants were quick to offer “it’s not because she’s a woman” disclaimers, but which only opened the floodgates for sarcastic replies

more at link: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/republicans-hillary-clinton-twitter-classic-sarcasm/

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An Anti-Hillary Campaign On Twitter Gets Taken Over With Classic Sarcasm (Original Post) one_voice Apr 2015 OP

These are TERRIFIC!!! calimary Apr 2015 #1

Meant to be sarcastic, it's actually seething with bigoted hate speech. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #2

+1 beat me to it loyalsister Apr 2015 #3

Ditto tomm2thumbs Apr 2015 #4

It's called irony. McCamy Taylor Apr 2015 #6

Plus Depaysement Apr 2015 #7

Bullshit- that was all just one out of more than a dozen bettyellen Apr 2015 #8

While you may not like the responses, it does avebury Apr 2015 #9

Think about the medium, dudes. How many NASCAR dads are on Twitter? McCamy Taylor Apr 2015 #5

I'm laughing so hard I can't talk! MADem Apr 2015 #10

These are good comebacks Gothmog Apr 2015 #11

K&R! Takket Apr 2015 #12

calimary

(81,546 posts)

1. These are TERRIFIC!!!

Reply to one_voice (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:28 AM

Apr 2015

Great find! When you put hate out there, sometimes you get the ridicule you deserve.

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

2. Meant to be sarcastic, it's actually seething with bigoted hate speech.

Reply to one_voice (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:31 AM

Apr 2015

The biases are manifold, mocking:

-- White or light skin

-- Large bodies/overweight

-- Poor literacy

-- Religious adherents

I find these to be ignorant, mean, bigoted, and not representative of our best side.

Sad to see it.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)

3. +1 beat me to it

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 12:36 AM

Apr 2015

Thanks for saying it

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)

4. Ditto

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 01:37 AM

Apr 2015

Dropping to their level only puts us at their level

Do we really want to be down there? To what end?

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)

6. It's called irony.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 02:06 AM

Apr 2015

Depaysement

(1,835 posts)

7. Plus

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 02:22 AM

Apr 2015

Making fun of a large slice of the voting public is not exactly the best way to get votes.

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)

8. Bullshit- that was all just one out of more than a dozen

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 02:33 AM

Apr 2015

That was posted. One of more than a dozen.

Nice try though.

avebury

(10,953 posts)

9. While you may not like the responses, it does

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 03:15 AM

Apr 2015

demonstrate why the Republicans just can't win any type of instant messaging / social media campaigns. Time after time they think that they have finally found a way to humiliate Liberals only to find out that their techniques blow up in their face like an exploding cigar. That is what is really funny about stuff like this - their continual failure to think things through.