“Hashtag diplomacy” is an approach to dealing with aggressors around the world that has been used by State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as well as Michelle Obama.
What would happen if guns were replaced by hashtags? That’s what #ReplaceGunWithHashtag is all about, and it started off trending high:
Iowahawk kicked things off, and it got rolling quickly:
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "This is my rifle, this is my hashtag / this one's for fighting, the other's for douchebags."
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2014
@iowahawkblog This is a hashtag, and it'll really smart. The question is … do you feel lucky? Well do ya punk? 😀
— Mr. Tugwit (@MrTugwit) May 8, 2014
@iowahawkblog Is that a hashtag in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— wuh (@witchitawilly) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag @iowahawkblog
The Hashtags of Navarrone
— Ray Vanderneck (@cbrecluse) May 8, 2014
Hastags and Roses#ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Michael Prince (@PFlat2) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag You can have my hashtag when you pry it from my cold dead hand! @iowahawkblog
— Leslie Ù† (@LADowd) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "No freeman shall be debarred the use of hashtags."
— ConservativeLA (@ConservativeLA) May 8, 2014
This is the most powerful hashtag in the world and could blow your laptop clean off! #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Foghorn Leghorn (@FoghornBLeghorn) May 8, 2014
Jamie's Got a Hashtag.. Jamie's got a hashtag..#ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— The 57th State â„…EFâ„¢ (@EF517_V2) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/DavidJGarth/status/464464954398351362
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag He brought a knife to a Hashtag fight.
— Keith Johnson (@KeithJonsn) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag: "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too many hashtags."
— ConservativeLA (@ConservativeLA) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/464467435220131840
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag
19 year olds are too irresponsible to own a hashtag.#GunSense #2A #MomsDemand #Everytown pic.twitter.com/DyLOwSGQO2— They call me Thor (@EricBeasley33W) May 8, 2014
I've got two hashtags. One for each of ya' #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "Political power grows out the tweet of a hashtag." – Mao Zedong. @iowahawkblog
— Popehat (@Popehat) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag
These Hashtag's of War have no place on our streets. #GunSense #2A #RedneckTaliban pic.twitter.com/PY6deNNS27— They call me Thor (@EricBeasley33W) May 8, 2014
@Sparticus33W I am a hashtag owner but support common sense hashtag laws, #hashtagsense #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— J.P. (@JRGlocknStuff) May 8, 2014
With a hashtag barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.#replacegunwithhashtag
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) May 8, 2014
It's better to have a hashtag and not need it than to need a hashtag and not have it. #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Shane Styles (@shaner5000) May 8, 2014
Stop! or my mom will hashtag! #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Torrey M. Spears (@torreymspears) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/464468874139017218
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/464469135410229248
"You can get more with a hashtag and a kind word than with just a kind word." #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) May 8, 2014
Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the hashtag.#ReplaceGunwithHashtag
— Leon Wolf (@LeonHWolf) May 8, 2014
"He pulls a knife, you pull a hashtag…that's how you get Capone." #ReplaceGunwithHashtag
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/Patriot_Musket/status/464473128354070528
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "You gonna pull those hashtags, or whistle Dixie?"
— Natasha Fatale (@N_Fatale) May 8, 2014
You have a license for those Hashtags? #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Brandon Day (@DayFinancial) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag When hashtags are outlawed, only outlaws will have hashtags.
— #WriteInRubio (@corrcomm) May 8, 2014
They came with Hashtags a blazin' #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Bossy Pi (@alpha_Lady_pi) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/the_heppcat/status/464478729750601729
Animal Mother is 1 of the finest human beings in the world. All he needs is someone to throw hashtags at him. #ReplaceGunWithHashtag #Kinda
— Erik Salter (@an1310) May 8, 2014
God created man, but a hashtag made them equal#ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Victor Nikki (@hapkidobigdad) May 8, 2014
Happiness is a Warm Hashtag. #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— lumdog (@lumdog2012) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunwithHashtag 'I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss, he went for his hashtag, but I pulled mine first…'
— Thew (@senorlamella) May 8, 2014
The Man with the Golden Hashtag. #ReplaceGunwithHashtag
— Joan of Argghh! (@JoanOfArgghh) May 8, 2014
Why do I carry a Hashtag ? 'Cause a cop is too heavy #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Scott Rutledge (@ir_ScottR) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "Say 'ello to my leetle hashtag!"
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2014
Last but not least, hashtag handling advice from the vice president:
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag Biden: just fire the hashtag through the door
— dismemberment #7089 (@JohnFict) May 8, 2014
