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Judi Lynn

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Fri Dec 5, 2014, 05:41 PM Dec 2014

Trolls! We Create, They Spoil, and We Fight Back!

Weekend Edition December 5-7, 2014

Let's Fight!

Trolls! We Create, They Spoil, and We Fight Back!

by ANDRE VLTCHEK


Trolls are exhausting, but eternal. They are like lice, like parasites. When I try to imagine them, in my mind they appear like something slimy, moderately stinky, and thoroughly repulsive.

It appears that they come from nowhere; they insult and ridicule, then they move rapidly back into the darkness, awaiting another appropriate opportunity to attack and to harm.

Like rat droppings, they leave their toxic comments at the bottom of the RT reports, and all over other great, often non-Western media outlets. The better the reports, the more vicious their assaults are. Trolls are particularly ‘outraged’ by those writers who are managing to effectively deconstruct the main official narratives erected by the US and UK propagandist gurus.

Their comments range from: “The author must have been drunk when he wrote the article”, to the much more elaborate, ‘analytical’ slurs. You know that you are dealing with a troll, when some stereotypical catch phrase pops up: “I am shocked that the RT is now droppings its standards, by using such low-quality reporting”.

There are iPad revolutionaries among them, or some individuals, defined in some countries such as Eritrea as “useful idiots”. Useful to the Empire, of course!

Most of trolls are ‘politically correct’. They try to get you, by the linguistic standards created by the Empire. You slip and they are at your throat. You lose your temper, calling someone names in the middle of the battle, and they bury their dirty teeth right into your flesh.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/trolls-we-create-they-spoil-and-we-fight-back/

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Trolls! We Create, They Spoil, and We Fight Back! (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP
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