I periodically share tweets that have some sort of remarkable feature, either good or bad.
Clever counter-tweets are especially appreciated. I even started giving recognition to the most brutally effective response each year.
In 2019, the counter-tweet of the year debunked the notion that capitalism isn’t good for workers.- For 2020, the counter-tweet of the year was a biting and brutal response to a socialist fantasy.
But I may have been too quick to assign a winner for this year.
That’s because a Twitter account called @architecturpic published this tweet yesterday.
While it’s accurate to point out that highway exits don’t produce scenic architecture, is this an indictment of capitalism?
Not if you compare it to the slums of socialism, which is the message in this devastating response from @BrentCochran1.
Ouch. As the announcers might say at a tennis tournament, “game, set, and match for Brent Cochran.”
Suffice to say that there will have to be co-winners for the best counter-tweet of 2020.
By the way, it’s normally quite easy to find both nice and ugly architecture in any nation.
So to add a bit of hard data to today’s column, I’ll simply note that the average poor American has more spacious housing than the average middle-class person in Europe.
That doesn’t mean the housing will be architecturally significant, but it does indicate that people are better off in countries with smaller government and more economic liberty (indeed, it’s also worth noting that the average poor American enjoys higher overall living standards than middle-class folks in most other industrialized nations).
Which is why any tweet comparing socialism and capitalism has a foregone conclusion.
P.S. At some point, I’ll probably set up a special page for “Remarkable Tweets.” But since that hasn’t yet happened, here are the other tweets that I found to be noteworthy.
- The most depressing tweet.
- Trump’s worst-ever tweet.
- The most-flattering tweet about Trump’s policy.
- The best-ever tweet about inequality.
- An unintentionally accurate tweet.
