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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDougJ @ Balloon-Juice: "I believe that trolling is the highest form of human expression."
DougJ is hands down the most brilliant troll I have ever seen in my extensive online wanderings, he mostly trolls conservatives including quite a few "journalists" but he is not above trolling his own OPs with sockpuppets too.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/09/27/take-a-letter-maria/
This clip of Alex Pareene on CNBC is trolling at its best. Pareene says Jamie Dimon should step down as head of JP Morgan because of all the JP Morgan scandals. Who knows if hes serious or not though his point about bad PR is more relevant than his interviewers want to admit but he gets Maria Bartiromo to sputter the New York Times!, revealing to all that shes a teahadist whack job who has no place in journalism.
The comments on this OP are worth a look too, for instance:
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I wonder why. [img][/img]
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1000words
(7,051 posts)Most are rather transparent.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And brother Ted was being highly optimistic, it applies as much to trolls as to anything else.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)as I recall.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)Treating the world as a pile of unredeemable sociopaths CREATES those sociopaths.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)There's the old saw about not being able to cheat the honest man, scams play into the mark's cupidity and use it against him.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)that shaming stupidity cures it.
The opposite is the case.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Ignorance on the other hand can sometimes be ameliorated.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)He's a troll. He's saying this for effect. He knows it's offensive and he knows he's going to get a gasp from the courtroom, which he got, and he loves it. He's like the guy on your blog comment thread who is using the n-word. 'Oh, it made you mad? How about if I say this? Does it make you mad? Did it make you mad? Did it make you mad?' He's that guy! He's that kind of guy! When we're all shocked that he said something so blatantly racially offensive while talking about the cornerstone of the federal Civil Rights Act, he's thinking, 'Oh yeah!'"
If you didn't hear her say this, the "He" she's referring to is Scalia.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Give them a little ambiguity to deal with.