A Philosophy of Twitter Beef

There are two different approaches to speaking and writing. The first I’ll call “assertion as expression.” The idea behind this approach is that whenever you say or write something, you are expressing what you think, as thoroughly and comprehensively as you care capable of articulating at the moment. Say you’re at Thanksgiving dinner and the subject of Uncle Phil comes up, who you think is awful for what he did to Aunt Mildred. When the subject of Phil comes up, you express yourself honestly and thoroughly.