{"id":7647,"date":"2006-11-16T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2006-11-16T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T20:06:01","slug":"playing-with-a-troll-cranky-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Playing with a troll (cranky-d)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I said before that I wasn’t going to engage any trolls, since I have long since realized that it’s a waste of time.  However, a recent troll appearance got me riled up just enough to respond.  Some guy who calls himself paul k dropped an enormous screed in the comments to this post<\/a> by sherlock.  Before I continue, if I impaired anyones ability to directly address this guy, I apologize.  I was feeling feisty.  And if I broke any unwritten rules, let me know and I’ll stop.  That goes for this post as well.  And Jeff, if I went too low by posting my recap of events no one really cares about, let me know and I won’t do it again.
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Anyway, one excerpt from his piece is the following:
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\nThe costs of fighting a disastrously conceived, incompetently executed, and unwinnable war are no longer supportable in any sense—monetary, political, psychological. And now that the neocons\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 megalomaniac project for a nouveau American century has been discredited by its own architects (next time, try a remedial course in regional geopolitics, morons), we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re left to clean up the mess.
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\nI guess we were supposed to address these points in some manner, or at least bask in his wisdom.  However, I don’t think any of those statements are factual.  To argue the points would be to concede that they are at least partially correct.  Here’s some more content:
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\nI agree with Sam Harris that fundamentalist Islam is a cult of death. But unfortunately that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a potential it shares with any religion within the Abrahamic tradition, especially Christianity, which William Empson rightly described as a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201chideous system of torture worship.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d If fundamentalist twice-borners were allowed the same access to secular power as they have been in the past (Inquisition Version 2.0, anyone), I have no doubt they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d be burning infidels at the stake with the same True-Believer zeal as their head-lopping Muslim counterparts.
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\nWell, there’s plenty of ill-informed hate in that statement.  Again, why bother addressing it?\n<\/p>\n

\nSo, instead, I came up with the snark:
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\nGet a friggin blog, troll-boy.
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\nConcise, I think.  It made the point with a minimum of words.\n<\/p>\n

\nHis response
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\nAs soon as you quit trolling our sites, dickwad.
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\nAnd at least yr post contains one two-syllable word this round—hey, by your standards, that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s progress! Game, set and match to moi, knuckle-dragger.
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\nNow, I think anyone would realize that it was directed at me, and not at “everyone.” However, after I let him know I never troll any lefty sites and called him “pussy-boy” (juvenile, yes, but why not, really?), he let me know he was in fact adressing others as well.  My reading comprehension is pretty good.  I doubt he was being truthful.  No surprise.  Still more:
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\nAlso, I have no illusions about your educability, since you exemplify perfectly what John Gregory Dunne called \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cinvincible ignorance.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Teachability requires something other than your tribe\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s hard-wired tropisms that substitute for the higher faculties we Homo sapiens take for granted.
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\nWell, that puts the cap on it.  I am not human because I disagree with him, and neither is anyone else who disagrees.  Throw in a little appeal to authority and you have a winner.  What’s ultimately a riot is that I never attempted to argue with him, I just snarked at him.  So he has no idea whether I have the ability to address him or not.\n<\/p>\n

\nI admit, my last response was probably over the top, but I wanted to go out with a bang.  An excerpt:
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\nAs far as my \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cteachability\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d is concerned, if you want to put your academic cock on the table, I have the distinct feeling I can better you by far.  And claiming that I am not human because I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t agree with you is patently ridiculous.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd finally, you visit right-wing sites to point fingers and laugh.  That isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t a broadening of horizons, neighbor.  That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just what I would consider to be a waste of time.  Every time I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve visited a lefty site, I have realized that there is nothing there to learn since the worldview of the writers almost always is based on fantasy.  YOu probably feel the same about righty sites.\n<\/p>\n

\nSO, why bother?  My guess, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just compulsive behavior on your part.  You can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t resist the lure to think of yourself as better than others because of your beliefs, and how they make you so evolved.  I haven\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t met a lefty yet who didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t think himself to be smarter than almost everyone else, and yet for a select few they seem to fall way short of their self-described promise.
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\nYeah, that was bad.  I thought it was when I wrote it, but damn I felt like being a jerk.  I succeeded.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnyway, it was kinda fun. \n<\/p>\n

\nWe now return you to our regularly scheduled guest-blogging<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I said before that I wasn’t going to engage any trolls, since I have long since realized that it’s a waste of time.  However, a recent troll appearance got me riled up just enough to respond.  Some guy who calls himself paul k dropped an enormous screed in the comments to this post by sherlock.  Before I continue, if I impaired anyones ability to directly address this guy,<\/p>\n

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