I quite like Twitter. I quite like Facebook too.  Both social media platforms are fun to engage with.  They entertain, enrage, inform and humour me.  Unfortunately, above all else, the content tends to enrage these days.  This is particularly true of Twitter, where users get into public spats with each other.  Celebrities use their blue tick of verification to get other users permanently banned.

Avoiding those folk on the left side of politics, I am still witness to their moaning via the retweets of others.  And boy to they moan and whinge, and complain, and whinge.  I can’t understand how a political leaning can make a whole section of society so miserable, pessimistic, snobbish and downright hysterical.  The language they use is nothing short of ridiculous; using emotionally-charged vocabulary and subjective feelings over facts.

“This despicable, vindictive, uncaring Tory government is killing people with vicious benefits changes” – people on long term sickness benefits can’t just stay on them for life, they need to be assessed to check whether they can work.

“They’re killing the NHS by underfunding it so they can sell it off to their rich mates” – not happening, won’t happen; the NHS is over-subscribed, not underfunded.  There are too many people in this country and a lot of them make unreasonable demands on the NHS.

“Our kids’ futures are literally being stolen because they won’t offer free university tuition and they’re ripping us out of our beloved European Union” – more kids than ever from poorer and working class backgrounds are going into higher education; if they’re dropping out, it says more about the courses they’re doing than anything else. Countries of the Eurozone have over 50% youth unemployment, how’s that for a stolen future?

“They’re only interested in offering tax breaks to their rich mates and not about the majority of us” – the tax gap in the UK is the lowest in the world; this means that we retrieve most of what we’re owed, also the top 1% pays a hell of a lot of the tax take, in addition, nobody pays tax on the first £11,500 of their earnings (up from £4,300 in 2010).

“Tory Austerity is crippling public services” – we’re still overspending by £50bn per year, that’s not austerity.  And while public services can afford to police twitter, change the livery of police cars to virtue signal, and employ £60,000 per year diversity coordinators, then there are still efficiencies to be made.

But, whinge, whinge, fucking whinge.

Those on the left offer a pretence of caring for others… so long as the others they pretend to care for can be forced to succumb to the groupthink of the liberal bubble.  They herd people into groups so that they can treat each one as special victims: women; gays; muslims; ethnic minorities (but never Jews, heaven forbid, the Jews!); trans people.

I honestly don’t know how they reconcile their fight for gender equality and gay rights with their pandering to muslims.  Quite clearly they don’t, as mass child rape by gangs of muslim men across the country were covered-up by Labour councils and police forces under their instruction.  We don’t tackle the issue of islamist terrorism, we’re expected just hold hands, lay flowers, sing don’t look back in anger, post a hashtag then accept metal barriers to prevent truck attacks.  Every time there is a terrorist attack perpetrated by somebody whose mind has been warped by their interpretation of Islam, our civic leaders’ first response is always, without fail “we must protect our muslim communities and any reprisals will be dealt with with the full force of the law.  We will be monitoring social media for any comments that might be deemed threatening or hateful”.

The left hates freedom of speech, it hates diversity of thought, it hates having to deal with facts and arguments because it’s so much easier to feel like you’ve won an argument by shutting down your opponent with screaming and crying.  In their oh-so clever and funny way, with a “that’s shown them” smirk to the others in their twitter bubble, they quote the tweets of those they disagree with using the following:

• “Posted without comment” – as if to say to their comrades “Ha, I don’t need to offer an interpretation or narrative because this person is an idiot and so there”.
• “The state of this” – oh look, somebody who I’m never going to meet from a demographic I’ll never interact with doing something that’s harmless that they find fun.  But they’re clearly thick and they don’t vote the way I do, so I hate them.
• “Delete your account” – I don’t agree with you.  You should delete your account before I complain to Twitter and they do it for you.
• “Imagine my shock” – actually, this is one of my favourites and I’m guilty of using using it, so slap me.
• #metoo – this wound me up so much recently.  Women from privileged backgrounds dredging up clumsy encounters with men from years ago.  Grow a fucking pair, girls, if somebody comes on to you and it’s not welcomed, tell them.  If they carry on, punch the fuckers or break their fingers.  Don’t dwell on an awkward wink or an attempted kiss for years so you can jump on a bandwagon of victimhood when there are real people out there who are victims of real, horrible sexual violence and repression, but you’re too fucking scared to say or do anything about them because, you know “cultural differences” and you don’t want to seem racist.  Idiots.

To look at Twitter, the news websites and political commentary from across the spectrum, you’d think the world was going insane.  There is definitely an effort to shut down conservative voices on social media by suspension of accounts on Twitter and demonetisation of Youtube channels.  Luckily, the vast majority of people use social media to interact with their friends and post funny videos.  These are the people who go about their daily business, work the best for their families, pay their taxes, contribute to society.  They don’t give a crap about what Owen fucking Jones is pissing his pants about. Or that there’s a hashtag to complain about an awkward fumble at a Christmas party in 1995.  And thank goodness for that.