6,922nd Reply To Twitter Post Thinks He Made Real Difference

“Having the real truth out there now is crucial, in this era of fake news and misinformation.”

Nahariyya, May 14 – A resident of this sleepy city on the Mediterranean voiced satisfaction today after he submitted the latest of what now number more than seven thousands responses to a social media post, stating that he now feels he has accomplished something, and perhaps even opened someone’s mind, if not changed it.

Dudu Ben-Yisrael, a retired architect, took to Twitter Thursday morning to offer his two cents on  post by a Hollywood celebrity with strong political opinions, doing so by hitting “Reply” on the celebrity’s tweet. The septuagenarian grandfather of three decided to add his voice to the other 6,921 users who had already weighed in in that fashion, but whose tweets he admitted he did not have time to read.

“I had to say my piece” he explained. “Someone out there might get the wrong idea about the world unless my reply is out there, just after one that’s probably from a Russian bot. Anyone who scrolls all the way through the other replies to get to mine will have the record set straight. We can’t have some cloistered, safe-space showbiz snowflake pontificate on important issues about which she knows nothing, and have that go unanswered. I’m glad I did my bit to advance human enlightenment in this case.”

A starlet had tweeted Wednesday decrying what she perceived as rampant bigotry inherent in certain social and political trends, and called for people to exercise greater sensitivity. Ben-Yisrael encountered the tweet in his feed Thursday morning, after thousands of others had already responded, but in his gut he sensed none of the previous 6,921 had spoken truth to power in a way that conveyed all the right nuances. He set about rectifying that shortcoming, and one minute later, added his tweet to the others.

“I did catch a glimpse of some of the other responses,” he assured a reporter. “I can’t tell you how many blindly agreed with her, especially the blue-check brigade, that echo chamber of wokeness. But even the handful of dissenting replies I saw missed some important things. Having the real truth out there now is crucial, in this era of fake news and misinformation. I’m gratified I was able to contribute to educating the public.”

Ben-Yisrael plans to build on his public service achievement later today by quote-tweeting a different public figure’s misleading take on coronavirus lockdown measures and highlighting what’s wrong with that take to his seventeen followers.

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