You can brace, quote, or set up (whatever you want to call it) a sarcastic comment with the sarcasm emoji.

There are a couple of options. Like the upside down smiley face 🙃 which is most widely recognized. The eye-roll is always a personal favorite 🙄. The side eye squint with a lopsided smile/frown 😏 😒or the wink 😉 are sometimes a better choice. There's also one with a flat mouth, deadpan eyes and clapping hands that's great but I don't have that one. It's close to this one 😐. The clapping hands really sells that one as sarcasm.

Anyway, I feel you about Twitter. It's a cesspool of runaway rage and hot emotions. Emojis help, though it's not a cure all, if you can spend the real estate on them.

Also, don't be afraid to break complicated commentary out into multiple tweets. End and lead a continuation with ... or an em-dash. If you can, it's even better to break a word over two tweets.

Better yet, write something more detailed as a blog post and link it in the tweet. Don't get I to heavy or controversial things in a tweet in the first place. Twitter wasn't designed to handle it.

Twitter wasn't designed to be anything more than a notice board, a side-bar, or digital pass around like a slam book. So we have to recognize the difficulties of using it for more than what it was intended in the first place. It's just too limiting.

TikTok is a better option. You can say a lot in 30 sec or a min, you don't loose facial expression, and people can see your sincerity even if they disagree with you. There are still basement trolls and people still tend to get worked up to the point where they don't want to hear from you.

Which brings me to my final point. A lot of social media is a rant, a snapshot in time. It's not an overall attitude, belief, or repose. People sat and write things in the heat of the moment that are hyperbole, lashing out, or harsh expressions of frustration that they don't really mean overall or literally. Maybe it doesn't serve to make them more defensive and provoke them further. Should it be normalized to rant online? No, but people do a lot of things they shouldn't do, especially online. The rest of us need to keep our heads up and try to be mindful to not add to it.

And cut ourselves some slack when we mess up.