Caterina Fake

Part of why making Pinwheel is so fun, is so exploding with possibility, is that a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists, and manifestoes can all be put into a note.

American Businesswoman

The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.

Poppy Z. Brite

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

American Author

Chris Wooding

I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.

British Writer

Richard Grenell

The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

American Diplomat

Jackson Katz

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

American Educator

Ben Shapiro

Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.

Wyatt Cenac

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

American Comedian

Theo Van Gogh

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

Dutch Director

Pete Wentz

I don't get on stage and give a social diatribe. I am a performer and an entertainer.

American Musician

The word 'diatribe' always implies strong disapproval or dissatisfaction towards the subject.

Negative Connotation

'Diatribe' suggests that the speaker has intense feelings, usually anger or frustration.

Intensity of Emotion

A 'diatribe' often refers to a long, detailed criticism, not just a brief negative remark.

Criticism Length

The language used in a 'diatribe' is typically harsh and sometimes bitter, indicating strong emotions.

Harsh and Bitter

In political contexts, a 'diatribe' can be a strategic move to discredit opponents.

Politics Context

'Diatribe' may negatively affect how others view the speaker, as it can come off as a rant.

Public Perception

 happened to be around that table a development economist and if you know economists they go on at great length and he explained the world trade system and at the end of this rather lengthy diatribe we then got to talking about what was it that perhaps technology might do that would help contribute to a

Technology makes way for...

 terrible jokes, spurious pop history, long, emotional confessions, diatribes against the government. And as I read and shared these things, I wondered to myself,