Do persons who write that a clever saying has "destroyed" another actually believe something of import has been accomplished?

Nah. Like most communications on web it is bloated with hyperbole.

Agree with @cookieman

Everything seems to be juiced up with hyperbole these days. And then, blessedly, the words cease to have meaning, like the kid who cried wolf once too often.

Another great one is “devastated”. As in, “I was devastated when my guinea pig died”

And to be honest, I think verbs like “to bully” and “to hate” and others are starting to creep up there into the hyperbolic atmosphere. I remember a question on Fluther about being bullied on a Q and A site.

I see this mainly from a site called occupydemocrats.com. I had read that they were unreliable and I find personally that their claims and the repetitive style of their posts are ludicrous. I’m sure other people and sties do it as well but I find that organization’s posts particularly egregious and hyperbolic.

Yes, and they are just as wrong as every single person in the history of the planet.
Even when entire countries are laid waste to and turned into rubble, it means absolutely nothing in the face of the immensity of the universe.

Your family was killed in a terrorist bombing? Pah! How could that possibly compare to even the destruction wrought by a Supernova?

forget about whether or not you believe clever words sway opinions and attitudes. Pay attention instead to the reaction of the powerful when such words are deployed against them.

@stanleybmanly From what I can see, the powerful view disparaging tweets against them as free publicity and as a sideshow distracting the shallow masses from their real machinations.

Trump is another story. He’s infantile, so the tweets bother him.

There arecertainly places where tweets from you can guarantee your disappearance

@stanleybmanly It’s sad to think that’s true.