ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
“ARE LIBERALS READY for us MAGA Republicans to retake this nation in 2024? We are going to pass so many laws restricting them that their heads will explode.” That was the question/statement/declaration on Quora to which I responded in a manner that I hoped was entertaining and not seem insufferably silly. [Read more] “MAGAs hoping to retake this nation in 2024 already threatening poor libtards!”
WHERE THE HECK IS “Q”?!!? Since the demise of 8chan in August 2019 due to its being linked to acts of violence (including the gunman who killed at least 49 people at mosques in New Zealand), the supderduper anonymous “Q” has been silent. While the loss of the notorious social media platform—effectively a virtual home for Q and his/her/their followers—has forced those followers to other sites, little has been heard from Q his/her/their self (selves?) [Read more] “want to find “Q”? find the missing basement ...”
I HATE BULLIES and I see internet trolls as bullies. So I hate internet trolls. But aside from Facebook, where I can keep them curbed by excluding them from my comment thread, I have little interaction on social media platforms on the internet. Consequently, I have little interaction with bullies and trolls on the internet. [Read more] “an experiment that actually curbed hate speech on the internet”
TROLLS ARE EVERYWHERE! It wasn’t always this way. Once upon a time, trolls dwelled in Scandinavian folk tales, creatures hostile to all things human. But now trolls are everywhere! They’re leaving forests and bridges and the rocks and trees of the Old World to dwell in the cybercities that encircle the globe. [Read more] “trolls are leaving forests and bridges for the internet”
THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS were taken from an article titled “The One Psychological Characteristic That Online Trolls Tend to Share.” It’s an interesting look at what trolling has become, and most of the findings fit my observations of and experiences with persistent (compulsive?) trolls on social and news-oriented websites. [Read more] “sadism! psychopathy! machiavellianism! and trolling?”