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For the sake of diversion, a brief summary derived from my observations of
the trolls, mostly in alt.fan.michael-moore. Dubya's turkey with four right
wings?

I divide the trolls into the haters (subdivided into Busheviks, Rusheviks,
and other fringes), reconstructionists (religious fanatics), pure sophists,
and the oligarchs of BushCo.

The haters are the most visible troll faction and the craziest. For example,
the obvious #1 generic Bushevik troll has nothing but noise. Lots of
handles, random subject changes, extreme cross-posting, no attempt to
discuss anything. Just lots of noise to jam any signal. The Rushevik trolls
are the dittohead fans of ol' Rushbaugh. Most of the hater factions are
smaller, and their loyalties are dispersed, though most of them are clearly
in the Bushevik camp. The main exception is the Howard Stern vulgarians.

Some of the religious fanatic trolls are also haters, but some are just
reconstructionists. They basically want to reconstruct America more along
the lines of Iran, except without the "progressive" Muslem stuff. The
amazing self-contradiction is their claim that America needs more religion,
when it's already the most religious developed nation. Though there are
plenty of devoutly religious people who oppose Dubya, I've never noticed one
who was aggressive enough about it to qualify as a troll.

Another group of trolls has to be regarded as pure sophists. Intellectual
dishonesty as a way of life? Apparently they just want to argue, so they
deliberately seek people with strong opinions with whom they can have big
"fights". Most of them appear to be crazy legends in their own minds, but a
few rise to a level of tediousness sufficient to make you wonder if they are
failed lawyers, or perhaps even practicing jailhouse lawyers writing from
prison. As of this writing, there are perhaps two to five of them active in
alt.fan.michael-moore. They tend to come and go, but the most
self-contradictory and amusing one only arrived a few days ago--starting out
his active participation with a post explaining why he would just
immediately go away. Yes, trolls in this category are probably the champion
liars and hypocrites (though not as rude as the haters), but they can be
entertaining to tease.

Most conspicuous by their absence are the only rational supporters of
Dubya--the super-rich oligarchs of BushCo who actually make money from
Bush/Cheney's oligarchic class-war policies. If any of them are present,
they certainly conceal themselves well. Certainly not to imply that all rich
people are Busheviks, but I think the Busheviks among them tend to be the
greedy, short-sighted, and foolish ones.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blather:

mclark <idontreply@toemail.com> wrote:
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Try:

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John Kerry's initial reaction to 9/11:

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M. Clark