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In a rather well-timed yet coincidental counterpoint to Why we're Losing the Internet to the Culture of Hate, Milo Yiannopoulos over at Breitbart brings us this:
A warped currency today governs popular culture. Instead of creativity, talent and boldness, those who succeed are often those who can best demonstrate outrage, grievance and victimhood.
Even conservatives are buying into it. Witness, in the days since Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon was announced as Donald Trump's campaign manager, how establishment stooges have bought into the worst smear-tactics of the left. As with the left, nothing is evaluated on its quality, or whether it's factually accurate, thought-provoking or even amusing: only whether it can be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic.
Campuses are where the illness takes its most severe form. Students running for safe spaces at the slightest hint of a challenge to their coddled worldview. Faculties and administrations desperately trying to sabotage visits from conservative speakers (often me!) to avoid the inevitable complaints from tearful lefty students.
In this maelstrom of grievance, there is one group boldly swimming against the tide: trolls.
Trolling has become a byword for everything the left disagrees with, particularly if it's boisterous, mischievous and provocative. Even straightforward political disagreement, not intended to provoke, is sometimes described as "trolling" by leftists who can't tell the difference between someone who doesn't believe as they do and an "abuser" or "harasser."
Yeah, you knew I wouldn't let that kinda SJW nonsense slide without comment.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @06:39PM
Funny, that's exactly why I keep you talking. That and it amuses me to watch you spin and bullshit your way through life in a manner worthy of a career politician.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 22 2016, @07:37PM
You can't be saved. I just want to see, out of morbid curiosity, how low you're going to sink on a public forum. I know I shouldn't, but it's like a really nasty car accident.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @08:07PM
Oh I don't need saving. You mind your business and I'll mind mine is not a philosophy that's going to bring me an iota of bad karma. I'd worry about your own jackboot lurving self.
Besides, I've said it before and I'll say it again. Everyone here already knows my views. It's yours that I'm looking to parade. Unfortunately you rarely cooperate, choosing to fling shit rather than debate an issue. Which I suppose says plenty about you as a person, so that's another win for me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 22 2016, @08:57PM
You're not even on the same planet as the rest of us, good grief. Modded Troll because you admitted outright that's what you're doing. Christ, HOW did you ever get on staff here?!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 22 2016, @10:45PM
Not on the same planet as you? What a pleasant thought. Any chance you'll be taking up astronaut training?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 23 2016, @04:04AM
You seem to be running out of steam, dear Uzzard :) I told you, I can keep this up as long as you can. When all you have is trolling, Mr. Self-Admitted Staff Troll, you run out of material very, very quickly. And since I, unlike you, am not an ambulatory dumpster fire of a human being who doesn't remember the First Rule of Holes...well, do the math.
Keep going; they say a flame burns brightest before it goes out.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 23 2016, @01:37PM
You still think you're harming a someone who's trolling you by getting into a flamewar? What Internet have you been on for the past, oh, forever?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 23 2016, @04:05PM
I'm not harming you, Uzzard; YOU are. That's the entire point of this little exercise: so you'll have a nice long rap sheet for all and sundry to see, in this world and the next. You're too damn stupid to shut your mouth and cut your losses, and I'm morbidly curious as to how low you'll sink. This kind of self-reinforcing narcissism is fascinating to me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 23 2016, @05:55PM
You're wrestling with a pig in the mud and you think you're the one making out good. That's just funny.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 23 2016, @06:37PM
You really do not have a grasp of the situation here, do you Uzzard...? That's fine; keep flapping your inbred, retarded foodsucker. You're only making this worse for yourself in the long run.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday August 23 2016, @11:12PM
You seriously think shit talking me is doing anything? All it does is make you look like the rage-filled harpy that you are. Everyone already knows the specific kind of asshole that I am. I'm happy to do this until the story goes into archive mode.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:53AM
What angle do I need to turn this at to get it through your head? It's not about what's happening here, Uzzard. I've never seen someone dig themselves this deep since that one insane court transcript everyone was ranting about.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 24 2016, @12:31PM
Sweety, everyone already knows exactly who I am. You're not showing them anything. There is no hole. You're only showing them your own ass.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:54PM
No, most people have no idea what kind of walking memetic plague laboratory you are. The more you post and participate, though, the more people see it. I can keep this up as long as you can, and likely longer, mostly because there's not much effort involved on my part. And you're unintentionally revealing a bit of narcissism there, as if you think the entire forum knows or gives a shit about you, Mr. Staff Troll.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 24 2016, @09:33PM
You really believe that after being on staff here for over a year and commenting, loudly and without restraint, that people don't know exactly how I roll? Wal-Mart has clues on sale right by the registers; pick one up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 25 2016, @03:56AM
Actually, yes, Uzzard. Because most people will see your posts and either dismiss you as someone who's constantly taking the piss, like Ethanol-Fueled, or take you for the kind of mouthbreathing moron who parrots shit without knowing what it means. I aim to dispel that illusion; you are not stupid, you are evil, which is an entirely different kettle of fish. Stupidity, or ignorance at least, is forgivable.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 25 2016, @08:51AM
Well, now that's interesting. What exactly brought you to this conclusion?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 25 2016, @06:36PM
Long observation of human nature. Most people, as I keep saying, are not the kind of waddling virus lab you are, and your transparent motivation for assuming they are is so you don't have to examine and change your behavior ("well everyone is this bad, human nature sucks, so leave me alone!").
When faced with something truly horrible, most decent humans simply cannot comprehend it, and refuse to, as if their brain has a conceptual filter. I run into this constantly with the anti-human-trafficking stuff; people simply can't believe such horrible things happen in this country in this day and age, and will do anything they can to disbelieve it, up to and including accusing myself and my friends of being scammers. There seems to be a deeply-rooted need to believe that the world is a fundamentally just place, so deep that people would rather blame the victim or ignore the problem entirely rather than be made uncomfortable or, heaven forbid, do something about it.
You really are an awful person, and yes, that is in comparison to most of humanity. My direct sample may only be a few thousand people, but I also know my history. And, interestingly, your insistence on "don't force my views on anyone" may actually be your subconscious acknowledging this and trying to keep you at least partially cloistered away from most of humanity; it's like some part of you realizes you're miswired and is trying to minimize the damage you do to other people.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @01:03AM
You're projecting again. My thought processes run not remotely like that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 26 2016, @05:05PM
Nope, sorry, I've met enough people who think and act like you to know how they work. You don't even see it; it's mostly subconscious. I've got my flaws, but I sure as hell do not go around thinking everyone is the same as me inside. Heaven forbid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @06:13PM
You've never met me, chuckles. You only think you know about me what I want you to see.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 26 2016, @06:24PM
It's how you say what you want me to see, and more importantly what you DON'T say, that tells me what I need to know. Even your reactions, like this one, are giving a very good outline of yourself to those as can read these things.
You Really Do Not Know The First Rule Of Holes (TM)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 26 2016, @09:17PM
Darlin, everyone else here has read exactly the same things you have and you are alone in deciding I am Hilter as far as I can tell. I wonder why that is?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 27 2016, @03:59AM
Hitler? Good grief, looks like I actually underestimated your narcissism a bit...no, Uzzard, I don't think you're Hitler. I do think you're one of the people who could potentially turn "stochastic terrorist pawn" though.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 27 2016, @02:04PM
Oh, you mean I might take up arms against an oppressive government that tramples our rights daily? You'd be correct. If fighting oppression is your version of evil though, you need to do some serious introspection.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday August 29 2016, @07:24AM
...see, Uzzard, you did it again. This is exactly what I mean about you doing my work for me. That was some weapons-grade motherfucking nutso right there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 29 2016, @10:01AM
Yup, anything you don't wanna hear is both crazy and evil. Roger. Twat.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.