I thought I almost started a shitstorm on the internet yesterday. Fortunately or unfortunately (can’t decide), no one pays enough attention to me for such things to happen.
Anyway, so I have this Twitter account. I use it mostly to follow the Occupy Wall Street movement. (And I have a couple of RL friends on there.) I just post random things on there ’cause I have the damn thing and should use it for more than checking on where the protesters are or the current game status for the Red Wings. So I posted this little gem:
Maybe #ows should adopt “Me ne frego” as their motto with all the arrests and violence.
Yep. Not a big deal…until some one remembers that this was the motto of the fascist squadristi. Yeeeeeeaah. Well, I realized what I had done shortly after hitting the enter button, but decided to not worry about it ’cause I have very, very few followers. Then one of RL friends with loads of followers retweeted the damn thing!
This has been very humbling. I just called a bunch of rampant protesters fascists (okay, so that’s not what I really said, but still the comparison I made wasn’t flattering and pretty much no one wants to be compared to fascists) and no one gives a damn. Hm. Unless my reference was hopelessly obscure and no one wants to research my brain patterns. Either way, I’ve certainly been put in my place.
Though, I will say that I have been spending so much time with the fascists that everyone is starting to look vaguely fascist to me. Mussolini, you rat bastard, stop invading my head!
Irony is hard.
And rusty…I think I’m gonna get tetanus.