Far-right Twitter user “polNewsNetwork1” shared an innocent 2017 photo taken through a New York subway driving force of a drag queen and a woman in a niqab, and tweeted, “This is the long term liberals want.”
The tweet was widely shared and brutally mocked, and respondents praised the inclusion of the photograph.
This-is-the-future-who-want-the-liberals has become an almost instant meme, and still today it comes to the rise, mocking the chagrin of the right.
The original poster, which has since been suspended from Twitter, seeks to sow hatred and department by portraying a “daily scene as complete with dark intentions,” Vox assumed at the time.
Similarly, a tweet posted through a London taxi driving force on 31 July was also counterproductive. Tweeting stolen photos of Dutch parents carrying their children on motorcycles and in cargo bike cycle buckets, @thomasthetaxi asked, “Do we need to see the morning race at school?”
Approximately 3,000 other people answered “yes,” adding Greater Manchester’s cycling and hiking commissioner Chris Boardman and Brompton Bicycle CEO Will Butler-Adams.
On Twitterspeak, the eye-catching comment was “provided”. That’s when a tweet generates a consistent ratio with the peck consistent with praise through more responses I like or retweets.
The tweet was so “autonomous,” a state in which the original poster discovers that the only concept he controlled to denigrate is his, that many respondents assumed the Twitter user was a parodic account.
Here’s the case: @thomasthetaxi is Jim Thomas’ Twitter nickcall, a taxi driving force with 6,600 Twitter followers who has been blogging under the so-called “Taxi Leaks” since 2011.
However, the mystification of Thomas’ tweet is so obvious that it caught the attention of “Bob Gunderson,” supposedly an American motorist who is actually a parodic account founded in the United States with nearly 9,000 followers on Twitter.
“What an abomination!” the legal motorist ainided responding to the real taxi driver.
“Why those young men tied to a steel case of more than three hundred horses and more than 70 km/h?” asked @Bob_Gunderson in a false indignation.
I contacted Jim Thomas for his comments. Meanwhile, London taxi drivers were more self-sufficient at a demonstration at Islington City Hall on 30 July.
André Langlois, editor-in-chief of Hampstead and Highgate Express, tweeted about the demonstration organized through taxi drivers, and tweeted that “Upper Street in Islington is lately blocked by heaps of protesters who oppose traffic measures on Islington Council’s ‘friendly streets’.
These proposed traffic measures will save cars on certain streets, creating a “low-traffic neighborhood” by designing a “racing rat.”
However, as many of those who responded to the tweets pointed out, the protesters (of whom there were dozens that hundreds) were guilty of blocking a road to traffic and, in doing so, demonstrated how quiet and charming the position without motor vehicles is.
A protesting taxi driving force stopped a young woman driving down the road and passed her a sign to wait for a protest photo.
“It’s about the kids, man,” the photographer said as he chased away a taxi driving force looking to pick up the sign.
The Upper Street block “like a pedestrianization ad,” one respondent wrote in Langlois’ tweet. “Watch them enjoy the sun, walk down the street, maybe spend some cash in the shops, smart stuff,” jimbryant40 argued.
Islington City Council defended its plan to create a new low-traffic neighborhood: “People-friendly streets in Islington will make walking, biking, skateboarding and using strollers and wheelchairs easier, while making streets safer, more enjoyable and more suitable for social activities. distance.”
The council said their plans were in line with the government’s pandemic guidelines: “Local government will have to act now to prevent a harmful build-up in traffic as we leave isolation and make room for walking, biking and social estrangement.”
People-friendly streets will also bring significant, safer fitness benefits for residents, more adapted to social estrangement and provide cleaner air for those with breathing difficulties,” the council added.
I Transport Journalist of the Year 2018 in the Press Gazette. I’m also a historian. My most recent books include “Roads Weren’t Built for Cars” and “Bike Boom,” both
Transport Journalist of the Year 2018 through Press Gazette. I’m also a historian: my most recent books include “Roads Were Not Built for Cars” and “Bike Boom,” published through Island Press, Washington, D.C.