“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
https://twitter.com/MrTugwit/status/464466292364541954
@iowahawkblog Is that a hashtag in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— willamina (@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 ن (@LADowd) May 8, 2014
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "No freeman shall be debarred the use of hashtags."
— CLA (@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
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/464464868545163264
https://twitter.com/DavidJGarth/status/464464954398351362
https://twitter.com/KeithJonsn/status/464465562849263616
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#ReplaceGunWithHashtag: "A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too many hashtags."
— CLA (@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
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/464468335330332672
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag "Political power grows out the tweet of a hashtag." – Mao Zedong. @iowahawkblog
— TinyShortBunkerInspectionHat (@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
— Jim Geraghty (@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, Pottsylvanian Spy & Bombshell (@N_Fatale) May 8, 2014
https://twitter.com/DayFinancial/status/464473669209968640
#ReplaceGunWithHashtag When hashtags are outlawed, only outlaws will have hashtags.
— Add your name (@corrcomm) May 8, 2014
They came with Hashtags a blazin' #ReplaceGunWithHashtag
— Bossy the one with the Chicago accent (@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
https://twitter.com/senorlamella/status/464478116870496256
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
— Unmasked Scott (@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:
https://twitter.com/JohnFict/status/464478342876385280
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