Oh, God, a meeting of minds. I'll say this for Pat - his work output is leagues ahead of this guy.
Patrick strikes me as having wholly bought into the idea that Twitter is the indispensable battleground of ideas - if you're not on there, you're not seen and don't matter, which is why he's so...'protective' of his image. Seeing as he's bought the 'disinformation' narrative, someone like Patrick likely believes that a single uncontested lie about him will turn into an 'alternative fact' about him that he'll never be able to counter, which seems to be why he thinks it absolutely critical to label all trolls and stalker childs promptly for the public record. He's apparently decided that the easiest way to invalidate all 'disinformation' about himself is to label all his critics stalkers because even though it's ridiculous, if you've gone out of your way to interact with him online, it's a hard label to articulate a rebuttal to. It's like saying 'ez' when you lose an online match, like it's a comforting troll to reuse when you're humiliated and have nothing to say but want to look cool and unbothered.
Is there a German word for someone who’s simultaneously cocksure and desperate? Because that’s what that “you’ve got a lotta ass to kiss javi, we’re waiting” tweet was.
Not specifically that, but unsurprisingly, the Germans have quite a few words that could apply to Patrick.
Hustensaftschmuggler - A 'cough syrup smuggler', as in a person who devotes way too much time and effort into pointless things.
Korinthenkacker - 'Raisin shitter' - a petty, anally retentive person.
Mutterseelenallein - So unlikable as to be abandoned by your own mother.
Bierkrugstapler - A 'tankard stacker', referring to the kind of person who gets increasingly drunk at the end of the bar and will talk with authority on any subject.
Besserwisser - An obnoxious know-it-all.
Lackaffe - Literally a 'polished ape/monkey', an arrogant, foppish individual who is fooling nobody.
Teletubbyzurückwinker - A man so infantile or soft in the head that he would literally 'wave back at the Teletubbies'. Maybe
Spockzurückwinker?
Blockflötengesicht - 'Recorder face' (as in the instrument), referring to somebody who does nothing but emit hot air.
But you reminded me of a regional insult one of my teachers used years ago - I think it's spelt, appropriately enough,
patschnassenfass - a 'sodden barrel', or an overweight, useless person with no function and takes up space. He used it to refer to a fat
maître d' he worked with who had a snooty, arrogant air but was a grouch, oversensitive, a heavy drinker and constantly fucked up orders.
