Battle of the internet Undergrounds -- response to TROLL attack

Apparently there's a turf battle going on between internet Undergrounds.

Who knew? I certainly didn't. There's a doppelganger-antimatter DU where folks gather to converse much like here. The other day someone from the unnamed antimatter DU was lurking in GD and followed me home to my blog: Johnson City Forum.

Here's the story:

The other morning I found this Johnson City Forum comment responding to an old blog post in my email:

<blockquote>As if the hurricane was Bush's fault. You're obviously not educated. Bush is not responsible for the local response, he is responsible for the NATIONAL response. It is impossible to coordinate a National Search and Rescue to a 30 mile radius in less than several days. You should be harping on the mayor and governor who were obviously under-prepared. You should do some research and understand how local, state and federal govt works before you blame Bush. OH, and I guess Bush blew up the levy to. HAHA MORONS!</blockquote>

Basic month-old Rush Limbaugh boilerplate yipyap. They almost got thru the whole bit without a single misspelling... if it weren't for that dang "levee" at the end before "HAHA MORONS!"

Thinking it was at least an artifact worth sharing, I started a here at DU.

Moments later, JCF gets this comment:
<blockquote>Looks like a little somebody needed some help from the dingbats over at DU (insert hysterical laughter) to help them with their reply!!! Bwhahahahahah!!!
Here it is cut and pasted as the poor pathetic loony lib wrote it: </blockquote>
and then this:
<blockquote>I loved how Brook ran to DU to try and formulate a response to your initial comment. Just goes to show that any moron can create a blog. How about thinking for yourself sometime instead of being a sheep for the clinically misinformed. </blockquote>
and:
<blockquote>How pathetic. This idiot couldnt come up with his own response, so he goes back to DU to have the rest of his heard speak for him... You are so fucking stupid.
</blockquote>
then there's:
<blockquote>Hahahaha.... any credibility Brook had she lost when she asked the lunatics at DemocraticUnderground for help responding to a "freeper". It's all about taking digs at President Bush and people of faith with the hateful people on that site. There's more to life than politics. Brook has my pity, and I will pray for her.</blockquote>

So, asking questions is an act of weakness. Decisive action would have looked like slinging poo. And I'm so stupid I have to have "my heard speak for me."

Bush is your man. No doubt about that.

To summarize, internet stalkers came to JCF to claiming moral authority to tell people at JCF that we need to "go to church":

<blockquote>As far as saying that Elizabeth might have a point if Bush said she needed to attend church - well, that's not an order, nor a law, and truth to tell, I'm inclined to say she does need to attend church. Is that forcing her to attend church? Is that forcing religion on her? Can't she hear a little advice without making a "federal case" out of it?</blockquote>

I think they'd do well to put down the Bible and pick up Freud's "Aetiology of Hysteria." I bet you'd like to "force" our little Lisa into your "church," you wicked minx.

Seriously, what do you think they are getting from the social exchange? What's the language game? Why spend the time? Are they blowing off steam? Is it a kind of political voyeurism? What are they wearing?

You have to admit, it's kinda, well -- transgressive.



Here's my bottom line, if you want to rule the world you at least need to learn some manners. You do "your team" no favors by picking fights. You do humanity no favors by assuming we are opposite camps, fighting imaginary battles. We're all going down with the ship so we might as well settle in. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.