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The Age of Trolling - How a small band of conservatives generated half of the DNC's headlines
The Slate ^
| September 7, 2012
| David Weigel
Posted on 09/09/2012 8:27:55 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I dont use troll in the pejorative sense. Actually, I may be trying to craft a neutral meaning of troll where none previously existed. The term, in its modern Internet usage, refers to people who want to start fights online to bring the universe into an argument on their terms. It comes not from Grimm literature, but from a fishing technique in which multiple lines are baited and dragged to haul in the maximum amount of cold-bloods. Ping for later
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:34:44 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(At the end of the day, you have to worship the god who can set you on fire.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The internet has become a force.
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:34:58 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The First Dictator was so self-congratulatory (as usual) in ‘08 when he bragged that he was on the cutting edge of internet politics and fund-raising. In 2012, his bunch looks very far behind the curve in both.
Live by the internet, die by the internet.
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:38:23 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Awe, they got a little sour taste of their own medicine and cry “It’s not fair!”. Slime, all of them!
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:42:48 AM PDT
by
poobear
(Socialism, in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
her unique ability to create arguments that are both perfectly formed and supernaturally unconvincingFunny line about DWS! :)
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:44:44 AM PDT
by
smoothsailing
(President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people - Clint Eastwood)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:49:06 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Any change to the DNC party platform required a voice vote of 2/3’s of the majority of convention delegates. The speaker stated that President Obama asked for support of this platform change.
The speaker called for voice vote of the “Ayes” and the “Nays”.. then he hesitated.
The speaker then called for a second voice vote of the “Ayes” and the “Nays”.. then he hesitated.
After another longer hesitation, the speaker then called for a third voice vote of the “Ayes” and the “Nays”.
The speaker then announced that the motion was passed , despite the obvious excess of “Nay” voice votes.
This was an enlightening expierience in what to expect from the party and how non-responsive it is to its own constituents.
Can we exect anything different from the party candidate ?
I think not .. !!
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Some kinds of trolls may be like honest fishermen, but others are cowardly miscreants hiding in the darkness whose ultimate effect is the shedding of innocent blood.
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:58:30 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
(Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
To: reasonisfaith
Cass Sunstein knows about these latter kinds of trolls.
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posted on
09/09/2012 8:59:06 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
(Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
To: Cincinatus' Wife
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:03:50 AM PDT
by
smoothsailing
(President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people - Clint Eastwood)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
...dogged Democrats about an unforced error made by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when she claimed a Washington Examiner reporter lied about a quote he had on tape. An 'unforced error'? Unforced error? That's a LIE. If a Republican had said an 'unforced error' the suck-ups in the MSM would call it a lie. And a troll is based on the creeps under a bridge. They were originally liberal liars who came to conservative sites and pretended to be conservatives - using the lie to make Republicans look bad.
David Weigel shows a small promise of being able to see things as they really are - but he is totally wrong on the above.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:09:04 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T. Jefferson)
To: poobear
Awe, they got a little sour taste of their own medicine...
On the contrary. Unlike their prescriptions, they got unadulterated medicine, and couldn't handle it.
I do take issue with the use of trolling.
The dems changed their platform, YidWithALid bothered to read the new platform, and pointed out the differences.
How's that trolling? In the real world, naturally.
To: GOPJ
I interpreted "unforced error" in this context to be like the baseball term -- something that Schultz did out of sheer stupidity, ignorance, or incompetence.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:14:33 AM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
They removed God from their party and platform. This wouldn’t be an issue if they weren’t concerned about giving an illusion of “righteousness” before the public.
Jesus warned against this behavior.
Matthew 6:5
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.”
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:18:39 AM PDT
by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Again with Slate.com going off the liberal reservation. It’s amazing how sometimes the truth, like a pernicious weed, can push its way through the toughest pavement and into the light of day.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:19:12 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The libs own the mass media yet they still complain. If the mass media was fair and balanced Romney would be leading by 10 points
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:19:45 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ha haaaaa. Citizen Journalists strike again.
Take that, Flatline Media.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:21:40 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
There were, reportedly, 15,000 members of the media in Charlotte, of whom maybe 14,980 could have given a damn about the party platform.15,000 members of the media??? Where were the delegates? Oh, right. They were locked out by The Fire Marshall.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:26:11 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Travis McGee
................who thought, just 11 months after the launch of the Occupy movement, that 99 percenters would have less influence on the platform than conservative media?..............."View from the enemy camp" bump. We just might be making inroads.
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posted on
09/09/2012 9:32:18 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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