In what may go down in the annals of trolling as an achievement on par with Cantor’s work on cardinality, over at Yglesias’s blog a commenter who goes by “line” manages a concern troll about trolling on a post about a post about trolling on a post about a Congressman doing some — and this is the only description that fits, really — trolling of his own.
Line, I salute you, you crazy bastard.
The serve:
I’ve never commented on here before, but I must say some of the people who do are quite ridiculous. I guess this sort of thing flows like an underground river in the democratic party.
Posted by line | April 15, 2008 9:25 AM
The return:
I understand that right-wing blogs aren’t the echo chambers that they once were, but left-wing blogs have traditionally been come-all-ye affairs. Al, Chris Ford, Fred, Sailer and their elk AREN’T Democrats.
Posted by Jeffrey Davis | April 15, 2008 9:33 AM
Game, set and match:
Oh, it doesn’t really matter if they’re democrats or not. It’s nice to know that those responsible for those comments aren’t of my party affiliation, but still, I’ve met many a democrat who’d say very similar things.
Posted by line | April 15, 2008 9:41 AM
Excellence at work, people.
April 15, 2008 at 9:50 am
“Elk”?
April 15, 2008 at 9:58 am
Yes. The elk isn’t a Democrat, either.
April 15, 2008 at 10:28 am
If I was an elk, I’d definitely be a Democrat. The media tells me they’re anti-hunting.
April 15, 2008 at 11:45 am
Steve Sailllllllllll-er… takes me away to where I’m goin’…
April 15, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Theory, by A. Elk. That A stands for Ann, it’s not “theory by a elk.”
April 15, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Having read a good portion of the ‘fair-minded’ folks who can’t divine the problem with a white man calling a black man who is a Senator and three years younger than you “boy”, I want to kill myself.
White people are, without a doubt, the worst people on earth.
April 16, 2008 at 6:39 am
It depends, doesn’t it? The whitest person I’ve ever seen was Roy Orbison, and he was really cool. But I see your point, there are some pretty bad white folk out there. Charles Manson was white. So was Richard Nixon, if I recall correctly. And Jack the Ripper! Richard Simmons, too. And don’t forget Adolph Hitl…
>>>Ramble terminated by Godwinbot<<<
April 16, 2008 at 9:16 am
Jay 6: While I sympathize with the first part of your comment, this part:
is another matter.
Ascribing moral characteristics to an entire racial group is pretty much textbook racism. If you’d said “Most* of the worst people in the world are white,” I’d agree with you. But as phrased your statement is racist.
*Not all. Exceptions include Osama bin Laden, Robert Mugabe, and the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
April 16, 2008 at 10:02 am
I see your Roy Orbison, and raise you an Edgar Winters.
- From the World Championships of 7-Card Honky, only on ESPN2.
April 16, 2008 at 11:51 am
*Not all. Exceptions include Osama bin Laden, Robert Mugabe, and the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
Exceptions that prove the rule.
Those guys are truly small potatoes compared to the death, destruction, toxicity and longterm threat to humanity that white people represent and have foisted on this world.
And yeah, I hate Whitey, what of it? But, see, it’s cool, because I’m one of them.
So take your whiney, white ass and go complain about racism somewhere else.
April 16, 2008 at 12:47 pm
don’t feed the trolls. My immediate reaction to your post was line is the trolliest troll ever until Now because Robert Waldmann is going to post a dumb “ilk” not “elk” joke and then I’m gonna be number ONE.
Sad to say, I can’t hope to be number ONE I can only hope to be number FIVE in this thread to nitpick a troll trolling a troll.
Oh on the evil non White guy front, Ghengis Khan was well up there with Robert Mugabe and John Yoo and the gang.
April 17, 2008 at 2:50 am
I see your Roy Orbison, and raise you an Edgar Winters.
Well, you got me there. He makes Orbison look like Shaft.
April 17, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Jay B: While your whiney racist white ass might be a good place to insert your head.
April 17, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Oh wait: you already did.
April 17, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Xopher it’s okay to hate white people. They know you don’t mean it.
April 17, 2008 at 2:27 pm
*gets puddy tat, releases it in thread*
April 17, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Not that my handle is “Tweety Bird”, but you do realize the bird generally won, right?
April 18, 2008 at 7:34 am
Hmmm … “The Annals of Contemporary Recursive Trolling” sounds like a good name for a
bandliterary journalApril 18, 2008 at 11:37 am
I was reacting to your picture, and yes, I was just setting a cat among the pigeons,* so to speak! I figured it was a response as serious as your comment to me.
*Yes, I also know you’re not a pigeon.**
**Though I suppose it’s possible you speak a pidgin,*** which is not at all the same thing.
***Which would, of course, in no way disqualify you from anything, since you obviously also speak non-pidgin English, and perhaps other languages.****
****Is Tweety Fish a language? Why or why not? Discuss.