Posted on 10/20/2016 12:22:00 PM PDT by OddLane
The word “troll” has rapidly lost its meaning to most plebs. In the same sense that racism can be defined as “that which a progressive dislikes,” so too has trolling been rewritten into “saying upsetting things on the internet.” Not every antagonist is a troll; Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk. The international beehive of trolling is 4chan, and 4chan mod Jay Irwin defines a troll as “A person who causes discord for their own amusement, especially due to another’s emotions or naiveté.” At its best, trolling turns a target into an unwitting and unwilling performer for the sake of a broader audience.
When Twitter troll AsianConservativeMan (“AConMan”) writes, “A border wall is unconservative, and it offends my Asian sensibilities. If there’s anything you won’t find in Asia, it’s a big wall,” he is playing on the misguided arrogance of the typical political loudmouth. There exist people who actually think they’re smart because they notice the “fallacy” within the quote.
Citing the Great Wall of China isn’t evidence of AsianConservativeMan’s idiocy so much as public demonstration of one’s own. For similar reasons, the present author often writes “YOUR WELCOME”; the mildly intelligent only catch the “your” while the actually intelligent will additionally notice the needless quotes and capitalization, and deduce intentionality...
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“If there’s anything you won’t find in Asia, it’s a big wall,”
Huhhh...??
The granddaddy of ALL walls is in China, dude.
THAT”S NOT wHAT HE wAS tALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like to think of myself as a contrarian.
I read ACM’s twitter feed. So Much Sarcasm. This is an example.
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