Behind the Tweet: Scalzi versus Trump

I had an interesting thought the other day.

There is almost no difference between a tweet from John Scalzi and a tweet from Donald Trump. The only difference is that Scalzi’s have better grammar. But the intent? Identical.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940930017365778432

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/940567812053053441

Folks, if you roll up with "both sides are equally bad" these days, I'm gonna know you're a fucking idiot whose understanding of political issues is about as deep as a single baked potato crisp. I literally have no time for you, Pringle pal.

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 16, 2017

After several minutes trying to find a polite way to say to a random person who tweeted me that their tweet was the stupidest thing I read in a while and that was saying something in 2017, and failing, I simply muted that person so I will never have to see their stupid again.

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 15, 2017

It’s like that Family Guy episode where it turned out that Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore were really both characters played by Fred Savage.