The Brilliant, Stunning, Perfect, Glorious and So Cute Mashably Buzzfed Style You’ve Got to See!

Respectable media has coalesced around a liberal-progressive consensus that brooks no challenge from the right on “social issues”. Social media is dominated by youth and conflict. Maybe this is all we need to explain the trend toward the language of wholly unwarranted hyperbole at lefty sites emphasizing the “viral”–so perfectly, stunningly, adorably satirized in this must-see tweet:

One familiar trope is the celebration of the PERFECT! retort turned on a “troll”, such as George Takei’s “epic” comeback here:

With no respectable political opposition to the Left’s agenda on social and racial issues the media seems to have lost all sense of proportion. The most trivial Twitter exchange is heroic comedy to Buzzfeed’s cub reporters. Their daily posts come like war dispatches from North Korea’s official press; every skirmish is total victory over an inept and cowardly enemy. Of course, it’s all dependent upon who is smacking down whom, therefore, according to Mashable, “There is Nothing More Glorious than Watching Roxane Gay Shut Down an Internet Troll” who had the nerve to criticize her pot roast that was under consideration for a blog post (no joke):