History repeats itself. In September 1939, Hitler launched World War II by blocking Poland on Twitter. In December 1941, the United States entered into the war after Japan subtweeted the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
This past Friday, according to Breitbart, Twitter “declar[ed] war on conservative media” by taking away the little blue checkmark that used to run next to Breitbart “journalist” Milo Yiannopoulos’ name on Twitter, verifying that he is indeed the real Milo Yiannopoulos.
No, really. Here’s the headline of the piece that ran in Breitbart’s tech section on the terrible injustice done to young Mr. Yiannopoulos, who coincidentally just happens to run Breitbart’s tech section.
Now, Milo hasn’t actually been banned from Twitter. Twitter simply informed him that “due to [his] recent violations of the Twitter Rules” — he’s a bit of a bully — they were taking away his little blue checkmark. So now he has to navigate Twitter without a little blue checkmark, like the overwhelming majority of Twitter users.
Naturally, Milo’s army of fans has responded to this terrible tragedy with wisdom and restraint.
JUST KIDDING! They’re crying bloody murder on Twitter and harassing anyone they can blame for Milo’s de-checkmarking.
Referencing a slogan formerly used to honor journalists and others literally murdered by terrorists, Milo’s Twitter fans launched the hashtag #JeSuisMilo. It was ugly
Here are some scenes from the ongoing debacle that is that hashtag.
https://twitter.com/TheAmazingPleb/status/685651751685341184
https://twitter.com/rstafford9/status/685635514481786880
https://twitter.com/AlHolmes66/status/685863515916115969
https://twitter.com/GBedecker/status/686036916744097796
#JeSuisMilo
SJWs suck TwatLord anus at Twitter.— Rapier Half-Witt (@br549q) January 9, 2016
Naturally, there were rape jokes.
#jesuismilo Haters are going to hate, Salt is going to flow, Spread your butt cheeks darling and prepare for Milo
— Tengu Manz (@Tengumanz) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/MikeRotondo86/status/685666046443823104
In a variation on the old “I’m Spartacus” ploy, many of Milo’s fans pretended to be him. (The real Milo posts as @Nero)
https://twitter.com/MiloYiannopoul2/status/685699475290091520
#JeSuisMilo suck it, bitches.
— Ryuuko Matoi 🇷🇺 (@dustinherrick1) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/Nuclearcherries/status/685698288864079873
https://twitter.com/dunnolol4/status/685735953072193536
It didn’t take long for the Milovians to find women to blame for Milo’s plight. Many — including some of the fake Milos — went after Huffington Post writer Jessie Thompson, who wrote a piece defending Twitter’s actions. Many of her, er, critics seem to be big fans of the c-word.
https://twitter.com/QuintusMetellus/status/685867151060766722
https://twitter.com/PillboxHill/status/685927247581085696
https://twitter.com/JRocca26/status/685916008561963008
https://twitter.com/Jew_Banker/status/685901724180037636
https://twitter.com/goodboygreg/status/685845870336708608
https://twitter.com/herpefeminist/status/685849987230597121
But she wasn’t the only woman to draw the fire of the Milovians. Some used the hashtag as an excuse to attack familiar #GamerGate targets.
#JeSuisMilo Randi Harper is a fat wanna be whore who can get a man. She is repulsive and ugly.
— Evandros Vanderbilt Kensington (@evandrus33) January 9, 2016
@m55244084 Whores get paid though… Zoe does it for free .. sex I mean, She plays victim for Money though #JeSuisMilo
— The King of Worms Mannimarco (@AKingOfWorms) January 9, 2016
Others — again, including some fake Milos — used the hashtag to promote their own agendas — some silly, some horrific, some a mixture of the two.
#rape #meninism #feminismiscancer #jesuismilo #financialrape #misandry pic.twitter.com/h3gKvnRTgn
— a boy has no soul (@saumyajit_) January 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/fiendeJ/status/685643144076083201
https://twitter.com/Qildaen/status/685938406929481728
https://twitter.com/gazetchic/status/686237395893776386
#JeSuisMilo Asia for the Asians, Africa for the Africans, White nations for EVERYONE! It's #WhiteGenocide.
— ProWhitesUnite (@prowhitesunite) January 9, 2016
#MisceGenocide is genocidal, so promoting it is racist & offensive. #WhiteGenocide #Trump2016 #JeSuisMilo #tcot https://t.co/Ct2vusC8oK
— Ben L. ن⚡️🐸👌🏻 🙏🏻 RIP Ashli Babbitt 🙏🏻 (@BNLieb) January 9, 2016
@AntiMarxistMilo #JeSuisMilo #CulturalMarxism pic.twitter.com/A8l8Iisyv8
— Milo Yiannopoulos (@AntiMarxistMilo) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/_simpa_/status/685993767007088640
One fellow thought he knew the real reason feminists hate Milo.
#JeSuisMilo @Nero You know what? Every feminist should admit one thing: They are crazy about you. And you are unattainable. That hurts them.
— Jeff Goldblum FAN (@Super_Slav_KEK) January 9, 2016
A few even managed to work their “cuck” obsession into their Tweets.
First the Gamers rose up with #Gamergate
Now everyone that isn't an Beta cuck or Brainwashed Feminist is rising up with #JeSuisMilo— EVEILCHARM (@EveilCharm) January 9, 2016
In the news: Twitter went full cuck, Adolf Merkel gets more laws for something her immigrants did, and Milo reings supreme. #JeSuisMilo
— Jeff Goldblum FAN (@Super_Slav_KEK) January 9, 2016
https://twitter.com/Ideo_Vames/status/685659660104368129
You can tell something about writers by the fans they attract. Milo’ fans prove with every terrible tweet of their what a wretched bunch of bullies and bigots they are — and why Twitter needs to do more to crack down on the abuse that its platform enables.
Congratulations, Milo defenders, for own-goaling yourself so magnificently.
Wow. Just Wow. I’m sure the familes of the Charlie Hebdo attack victims would appreiciate these guys using a hastag to honor the victims of a terrorist attack for a stupid and selfish reason.
Everything they do is self inflicted. They act like the people I used to know, they got bullied, so they take it out on other minorities and anyone not them. That an self loathing over not being white since they are all minorities, makes for a toxic combination with their Trump worship. And it’s all emotions, no logic, just poorly used articles and lies. Half the time when I talked to one of them it was pretty much me debunking literally every falsehood that the right wing spews on a daily basis. I’m not being figurative, at one point I basically had to curse him out for turning me into a strawman after saying I want to take his guns. The hilarious part is, I used guns before, he never touched a pistol, let alone rifle, and I never said those things.
But enough of my own experiences with people like this. I sincerely hope that twitter gets cracking down on yet another reason why GG blocker exists.
Congratulations you slimebags to equate your minor inconvenience of your cult leader to that of literal victims of a terrorist attack.
Also once again I point to their need of a boogeyman, like all conspiracy theorists and tribal propoganda. ISIS is getting their asses handed to them and most likely may not even survive in their current state in the next few years, thanks to the efforts of Kurds and the UN, yet to these mongrels, they can’t tell the difference they’re all brown.
So I have that to look forward to, another death of a boogeyman.
I love how all these shit lollipops are screeching on twitter about “SENSURSHIPPP” and “CONSERVATIVE PURGE” and “LIBRUL CUCKS” when all Twitter did is say “Milo, you’ve been an asshole. You’re no longer verified, but you can still tweet.”
Milo has literally not been censured. He can still tweet as normal. He can even still go to a billion other places to spout his bullshit. Except he can’t, because apparently companies are kind of wising up that allowing scumlords like Milo on to their platforms isn’t good for business.
YouTube still allows gross manospherians to post their rants about how awful women are for not sucking their cocks, apparently.
Twitter hasn’t banned him, but Milo’s fans are sure enough giving them reason to. And if they all leave Twitter in protest, we can just thank the powers that be for small favors.
Also, relinking this because it still is making me giggle. Roosh is willing to support Milo, but as long as Roosh’s butt is up against the wall.
Because nothing brings two scummy, scummy people together like their mutual hatred of women. (And “the gays” apparently. We can’t forget Milo’s a self-hating gay man!)
Half of those aren’t even trying to be sentences. Honestly, “C**t fart”? I can’t tell whether that’s an insult, he stubbed his toe, he’s a kindergartener who just learned a new naughty word or he’s one of those malfunctioning Tickle-Me-Elmos.
Wait, all the blue checkmark does is verify your identity so you can be differentiated from impostors, right? Isn’t taking over Milo’s name and picture and posting as him only making things worse for him?
I don’t know, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Ooooh, apparently Milo sent an email to a news site called “Re/code”, in all caps (which means he was screaming at them) demanding they “delete and apologize” about an article they wrote detailing the whole debacle.
Milo has included screencaps of the email, and I can just imagine him screeching at some poor writer to fix the article to his specifications. Re/code has since updated their article informing the readers of his email and the contents therein.
This is how I see it
Milo-“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAA whAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Milo’s Followers “WHaaaaaaaaaaaaa WHAAAAA WHAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
Drowns in tears
I dealt with someone who defending Yiannopoulos, after pointing out he is a rather unethical journalist for a group who loves to claim they’re about “ethics in journalism,” by bringing up…Andrea Dworkin.
Right, ’cause Andrea Dworkin is a popular journalist these days (she isn’t) and a darling among all feminists (she’s not).
It shouldn’t also be surprising that he claimed comedians were being banned from university campuses – which, if you are actually literate and have some reading comprehension skills, is completely false. They chose to not perform at those campuses and no one is keeping them from performing at them.
Along with being bigots and bullies – they’re just total fucking morons who don’t realize they’re morons.
“10 Best Foods to Lose Belly Fat”
Was my favorite.
Fight White Genocide with this 1 weird trick!
Never eat these 2 foods to avoid being a beta cuck!
SJWs HATE him.
Anti-SJW Paladin? So Anti-Social Justice Warrior Paladin? How does that even work? Not a very good class dude.
If he wasn’t such a maniacal douche rocket this would be High Comedy. I hope Twitter’s next step is to only give him 40 characters to sob his rage out to the internet with.
I know, right?!
It’s generally accepted that Paladins are, in fact, social justice warriors.
Imagine the level of sad your life has to be to be the sort of person who rallies behind Captain Sad (aka Milo Yianapoulos) because an unnecessary blue check mark png that used to be next to his name on Twitter dot com isn’t any more. That’s at least 10x as sad as being a member of GamerGate, which is already pretty goddamn sad. Most of them can’t even form coherent thoughts and they just go around screaming the c word everywhere. I genuinely feel sorry for these people.
I don’t…
Good grief. These douchebags need a nap. And a permanent time out.
Would one of the social media savvy folks on here be so kind as to indulge me? I’m a bit confused as to why removing the blue thing is a sanction.
My understanding, from David’s post, is it just guarantees the tweeter is who they say they are. If someone has broken t&cs why don’t they just get kicked off or suspended or something? Presumably all Milo’s followers know it’s still him, so what’s the detriment and why the fuss?
It’s weird to see a White Power tweet defending someone named “Milo Yiannopoulos”. I guess today’s racists don’t remember when “white” definitely did not refer to southern or eastern Europeans.
Honestly, I’ve become so inured to this stuff that my first reaction was to be impressed that they actually got some things right.
“You used ‘you’re’ instead of ‘your’ when conveying ‘you are’! Good job!”
I just noticed that the most intelligible of these MENSA candidates is literally a spambot. Good work, guys, you’ve all failed the fucking Turing test.
Is “7SD” another neo-Nazi code like “14/88” or did this dipshit just rage-flail at the keyboard?
(And yeah, I know picking on their typing is petty, but bloody hell.)
I keep reading it as “Jesu Is Milo”. I know that’s wrong but it’s a lil funnier than Je Suis Milo, which is tasteless in an extreme.
Speaking of tasteless in the extreme, Yiannopoulos himself has been going on and on about the loss of the verified mark. He even drunkenly wrote several songs about it for @Jack (Dorsey), the CEO of Twitter. Listen here:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1lm7BtxpKg7
http://vocaroo.com/i/s08JyLqZy44q
http://vocaroo.com/i/s19KfSF6LHdN
If you like, download these. They won’t be around on Vocaroo forever.
My parents remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard Kennedy was assassinated.
I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard Milo was unverified by Twitter.
I thought 9/11 was traumatic but now I know what trauma really is!
Je m’ennuie.
(I’m not bored by WWTM, just these jesuismilo twits.)
That’s one heck of a cheese and whine party.
I will never get tired of laughing at the hypocrisy of the these guys. They constantly claim feminists are professional victims who should concern ourselves with real problems that women in developing nations face and stop protesting trivial things like harassment and rape culture. Then they turn around and have a rage fit over a blue checkmark on twitter.
And what was with the Star Wars meme? I thought they were mad at that franchise?