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Since this is a thing now, I wish the Internet would stop playing into the hands of the latest horde of scammers, attention-seekers, and general idiots. The latest trend seems to be to wait until the conditions are right, say something so vile and stupid that it pisses most normal people off, and then sick like-minded morons on any resistance.
Another trend is to be an asshole and then mysteriously have a GoFundMe page set up in your name. How convenient. It's almost like people are being scammed or something...
Can the Internet stop falling for such obvious trolling? Of course not. It never will. Not when every idiot with extra cash falls for the same textbook idiocy over and over again.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)People have always done dumb things and perpetrated scams and all that other stuff. The Internet makes it easier to spread the crap, but it's people that are doing it. "The Internet" isn't "falling for obvious trolling" any more than telephones are responsible for phone scams. People are doing it. They are the trolls and the trollees. If you want people to be less dishonest, evil and stupid, good luck with that.
Oneironaut
(5,525 posts)type of trolling happening over and over again, places like Memories pizza wouldn't have made a cent. It's not because of the Internet, but it's annoying that this sort of thing isn't called out for what it is.
olddots
(10,237 posts)The medium is the message .
IADEMO2004
(5,560 posts)For a good laugh.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026527005
Bachmann: God Punishing US With 'Economic Disasters, Natural Disasters' Due To Obama Presidency
i thought this gerbil brained moron left the station?????
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)But now, thanks to Fox News, we have aggressively stupid.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Who do I need to offend to get a bunch of rubes to retire my debts?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)I thought this was going to be a thread about Greenwald.
Sid