Spaceman Spiff Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 21 minutes ago, gbear said: 1. Best twitter - I think Machiavelli would have some great insights into our current culture and politics. 2 Most followers - I'm going old school with Nero appealing to all our basest desires. I think Machiavelli is too hardcore for this era - he'd be banned pretty quickly (I'd love to see it though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousD Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Riggo-toni said: 1. Voltaire Just reading about the mans life and times. What a fascinating character!! And when I saw the tile of the thread his name was front and center.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hersh Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Jesus: “I’m trying not to judge here but Jesus Christ, some of y’all are ****ing crazy.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0ublestr0ker0ll Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Michael Jackson, and it isn't even close. "Ah-hee-hee!" would get 1 billion re-tweets. Edit: sorry, I read it as "most popular". Yes, best would be Carlin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 11 minutes ago, Hersh said: Jesus: “I’m trying not to judge here but Jesus Christ, some of y’all are ****ing crazy.” Jesus would initially have a huge following, but he'd get boycotted by the right like Nike and Keurig. Patriots would be out in the back 40 making videos of themselves smashing their Jesus paraphernalia and burning their bibles while claiming that Jesus Christ is "not a real Christian." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbear Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Machiavelli, "If you read my work, you know you must kill the former corrupt leaders. I will not say that about anyone now. You know who they are." - along the lines of his discourses on Liv. Note he wrote more than the Prince. Discourse on Livy are about turning a corrupt monarchy into a functioning republic. The result as Spaceman noted would be that he is banned from twitter. Though he may apply just enough Trump like "not gonna say do this." to avoid the ban long enough to give us some great thought/entertainment. Caligula (wrote Nero in a brain fart), "You guys spent years looking for evidence of Trump scandals. LOL, I was far better at bedding others' wives. I really did kill people in public. Further, I did not just get away with it. I was worshipped. Trump is a neophyte." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 44 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Jesus Christ is "not a real Christian." Well he was Jewish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aristarchus Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Oscar Wilde would be another good one. No one beats Carlin for me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long n Left Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Best- Hunter S Thompson Most followers- who ****ing cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Ernest Hemingway Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Nikola Tesla would probably be the most popular. Incredibly genius, and Incredibly bat****. Would be toxic yet entertaining. Pretty sure he hated fat folks, so if expect a ton of fat shaming people who trolled his free energy tweets. Most followers probably wouldve been Princess Diana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Some good candidates here. How about Abraham Lincoln?Had a really good sense of humor, was a great story-teller, and man, the politics of that time would be way interesting from his perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 I agree with those who have said Hunter S Thompson and Mark Twain. Especially given the last four years. Those Twitter accounts would have been something. I don’t know who would have the most followers. Doesn’t matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 4 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said: I think Machiavelli is too hardcore for this era - he'd be banned pretty quickly (I'd love to see it though). It's genuinely unfortunate how Machiavelli has been maligned by The Prince and the designation "Machiavellian". This is the guy who insisted republic was a better form of government than monarchy, that it was better to have an open contentious society than one in which dissent was oppressed, that there needed to be separate branches of government with a system of checks and balances in place to prevent tyranny, and that to protect a republic the citizens needed the right to bear arms. Our constitution is based on Machiavelli's concepts from Discourses on Livy, though probably filtered through the writings of Montesquieu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 I’m down for some Edgar Allan Poe Twitter rants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 2 hours ago, AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy said: I’m down for some Edgar Allan Poe Twitter rants. "Darkness engulfs my soul. Who shall flee this wretched existence? YOLO, ****es." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1. Carlin was already nailed. 2. Elvis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Oscar Wilde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 38 minutes ago, Dan T. said: "Darkness engulfs my soul. Who shall flee this wretched existence? YOLO, ****es." as the pendulum swings...dayum...there went my soul...good thing the sun is shining or I would cry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskinss Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Henny youngman might have a pretty good Twitter too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 A lot of good answers in here. I'd like to read Mark Twain's or Oscar Wilde's feed too. I feel like Pablo Neruda would have had an interesting twitter feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngestson Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 H.L. Mencken would be entertaining. I could see Poe facing some backlash/banning with one too many retweets of teenage girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 MLK, Jr. For best twitter and most followers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuler74 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 As someone mentioned...Andy Kaufman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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