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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 04:55 AM
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Poll question: What should I do as an "avowed troll" on the FascistRepublic
Edited on Sat Mar-20-04 04:59 AM by Rationality
Some fuckhead on another message board I post on happens to be a Freeper and he exposed me, getting yet another nick of mine banned. Now I'm kinda targeted ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100146/posts?page=75#75 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100743/posts). I have so much fun fucking with their fragile lil' minds though. What shall I do?
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 05:16 AM
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1. who's Jim Robinson and why should he fear you
:shrug:
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 05:41 AM
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2. Webmaster and owner of FR, kinda like Skinner to this site
Edited on Sat Mar-20-04 05:42 AM by Rationality
btw... I'm looking at the poll right now... y'alll are no fun :(
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 07:26 AM
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5. Both DU and FR (in they glance I just took) seem way too mild
. . . and namby-pamby moderated to be too much fun fomenting at. It is on the national news boards where the far greater friction can occur (and I don't mean vile or obscene, just blunt and direct and head-to-head and derisive if wished). And while I have enjoyed my limited posting here at DU, there is just something lacking in always conversing with your own side. I would guess that FR is worse, GOPers being more homogeneous and samewise indoctrinated.
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analogman Donating Member (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 09:55 AM
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9. FR is too annoying to bother with.
Just a bunch of propaganda and spin for the gummint. I sometimes read/post over at Liberty Forum though. Some good discussions over there and you won't find ANY pro-Bush propaganda crap.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 06:19 AM
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3. It takes some time to get really good at this.
Edited on Sat Mar-20-04 06:36 AM by Zorra
3 months is pretty good for an amateur saboteur though. The problem with the freeps is that it is difficult to post anything even slightly sensible. One of the simplest and funniest things to do is to make them look really foolish in order to make them realize their ignorance. When posted at appropriate times, saying "I think we should just nuke all them A'rabs and let God sort 'em out later" always brings a resounding round of appreciative comment. Sometimes making statements that make no logical sense at all is great for a laugh, especially when you get positive responses to your lunacy. Spouting judgmental pseudo-Christian racist or homophobic epithets is a sure fire winner, and is full on hilarious when you get a response where someone actually thinks they understand. Sometimes I wonder if freepers actually do understand this total nonsense in some type of mentally disordered way, which is particularly frightening.

Here is one of my favorites: "The idea of freedom of religion is to be free to choose your beliefs, our nation has honored that but the left is looking to change it by instilling one belief on us all. Accept it, endorse it, or you are the enemy whom they will vilify with all they can. They are the missionaries they have ridiculed in christian history, they preach a religion, they preach a belief, and they will go to extradorinary lengths to convert the people of our country."
This is a recent actual post. Notice that it is very poorly written, slightly misspelled, (this is critical to success) makes no sense, and has no basis in logic or reality. It often helps to write as if you are fundamentally illiterate and have a mid-level mental disorder categorized as schizophrenia compounded with poor potty training and a strict pseudo-Christian fundamentalist background, or maybe an OC neurotic disorder, as very few freepers have any degree of real intelligence, literacy, or cognition of reality.

The key is, try not to say anything that smacks of logic or intelligence. You have to remember that you are communicating with the mid to lower echelon of the dittohead group. Listening to the callers on the Rush Limbaugh program is an excellent way to get a handle on the disorganized state of the freeper mind, and you can get really great ideas for posting when Otis calls in from Jonestown Mississippi.

Sometimes freeperville is so off the wall it looks to me like half of the posters there are DUers or Green Party operatives.

Remember that it is all just in good fun and to be very subtle when planting the seeds of political discord. It is difficult to get them to think to deeply without giving yourself away -- also, thinking may be deeply disturbing to a freep and may cause a nervous breakdown if the conscience is affected. Don't try to get too controversial politically, until you are ready to expose yourself as a plant. Then tell them you are a black lesbian liberal communist muslim from Massachusetts and kiss them goodnight.
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BEZARK Donating Member (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 07:15 AM
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4. Posting like you're half way to David Duke or Timothy McVeigh
. . . or some deranged NRA gun-fondler always puts GOPers in a quandary. You are not beyond where many of their friends are, so they don't want to discount you out-of-hand, but they are embarrassed and uneasy about it all. Basically what you are doing is talking publicly like they do only amongst themselves in private.
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gold_bug Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:13 AM
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7. the problem with that is I like to make fun
of the FReeps for being.. for being such FReeps, so how do I know if the outrageous and lurid/crazy (and imbecilic) posts are genuine FReepers or only saboteurs?

I don't think you guys should do it; it's lame when they troll at DU and we complain, so DUers shouldn't turn around and do the same thing in FReepland.

O8)
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 08:09 AM
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6. I think it is fun reading the good vs the evil.
I even posted for a while and I left, they did not make me. I really did not fit in as I never wished to kill anyone. I also thought JC was a man of peace so I was really out of step.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 09:52 AM
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8. Tell em you still have about 15 other bogus freeper ID's
Paranoia is a wonderful thing.
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Rationality Donating Member (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 11:29 AM
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11. Like it! But keep it quiet...
Edited on Sat Mar-20-04 11:32 AM by Rationality
I don't want some Ox from Freeperland to be tracking me >:]

http://cgi.jacksonville.com/cgi-bin/msgboard/boards/news/view.cgi?section=4786#56076
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-04 11:09 AM
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10. Pointless
I joined, posted something moderately against Bush, and was banned. It's nothing but a closed cheering section. Don't waste your time; these people have made up their minds, facts be damned.
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