that's awesome. He tried to bait you to get in the muck with him but when you didn't he simmered down a bit and provided somewhat of an actual response and not just juvenile barbs about sexing your wife or mother. Although probably a bit disappointing that you didn't get the your mother's a whore response.
Maybe he saves that for the one-off shots against people he susses out to be there to troll him.

Could also be partly the diff between twitter in the Trump-in-office years and twitter now under Musk. But Simon even back then relies on his uber-lib creds and HBO dollars to insulate him from concern about what he says on there.

Kinda strange that he's been at it this long; I thought maybe he was going off-the-rails recently, but, nope, he's always been one to throw his feces at gawkers and feed the trolls on twitter. You should've invited him to the politics section here. We could've used a replacement for Whistler.

Why is this a shoutout?

Yeah, confusing.. Simon comes off as an unfunny sensitive pussy. Not a good look.

It was a simple question. Kinda weird that you won't answer it.

exactly what a cop would say. i'm not answering questions without an attorney present

I can’t believe the guy behind those tweets also wrote The Wire.

It’s like the entire series was his first album and he’s running on fumes.

Yeah, it's downright totalitarian to request that a poster on a message board explain his opinion.

You can't possibly be as obtuse as your post suggests you are.

I'm pretty sure he's just entertaining himself.

Social media could make Mark Twain sound dumb. It’s a reactionary medium, not reflective or reasoning. Also, great writers are often not great in public discourse anyway.

It’s not so much the brilliance of the writer but the immediacy of the reaction. Anyone can sound dumb when all it takes is a click.

I'm not talking about "brilliance", which has always struck me as a nebulous concept, so much as I am style.

Twain's concision, mordant humor, and clever turn of phrase were made for social media.