# Commissar is a troll. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407 "2011-02-24T02:12:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/401 "2011-08-03T11:47:13Z")
> [@wmfellows](#): > > Come on it’s been obvious for months he’s a Maestro of Trolls, playing the audience in GD perfectly. That’s the problem - he isn’t that good. Obvious troll has been obvious for months. I can see giving him the benefit of the doubt for a couple of weeks, but how long does he jump up and down yelling “I’M A TROLL! I’M A TROLL! HEY, **LOOK OVER HERE** UNDER THE BRIDGE AT ME!” and nothing happens? Most of the mods do a good job most of the time, but there are instances like this where their actions are just not susceptible to rational explanation. It’s clear to everyone what is going on, and he’s still here. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/402 "2011-08-03T11:59:48Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > For examples, see just about any post by Commissar. You forgot to add “or see any claim made by Commissar without ever substantiating it, which would be any claim ever made by Commissar.” **Shodan** : Maybe the reason he hasn’t been banned yet is the mods are having fun yanking his chain. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/403 "2011-08-03T12:53:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > **Shodan** : Maybe the reason he hasn’t been banned yet is the mods are having fun yanking his chain. I suppose that’s possible, but I thought DNFTT was the policy. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/404 "2011-08-03T13:36:25Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > Thank you, **Commissar**. Best of luck should you move on one way or another. Over-the-top language aside\* – which is what I suppose gets you the “troll” banner – I’ve enjoyed reading many of your posts in the Libya thread. > > Truth doesn’t have to be liked – it just is. Er, just to be clear, are you saying you agree with **Commissar’s** adulation of Ghaddafi, that you believe that the NATO intervention in Libya is in fact some sort of ‘crusade’ by ‘Christendom’, are you supporting him simply because he claims to be a Communist, or what? Not trying to start a fight here, just unclear on what you think his ‘truth’ is. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/405 "2011-08-03T14:51:08Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Started drinking early in the day again, eh, Red? I think his username refers to what those Spanish riojas do to my head. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/406 "2011-08-03T15:01:57Z")
In Spain, we begin drinking _Tempranillo_ wines at breakfast with our _Magdalenas_. Your American “hangover” is unknown to us. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/407 "2011-08-03T15:26:05Z")
> [@Commissar](#): > > At the explicit request of our friends and allies in the rightful socialist government of Afghanistan, our glorious Red Army was order into the country in order to liberate its citizenry from counter-revolutionary, CIA-financed, treacherous terrorist elements. Make no mistake about it: the intervention was a just one. Still, we should probably have allowed the Afghans to work their issues out on their own. As things turned out, we lost a lot of good men for little return… That’s what you get when you try to magnanimously help others, I suppose. Sigh… I am reminded of the “Doonesbury” sequence where the Soviet ambassador to the UN is delivering the party line, while Vietnamese ambassador Phred finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a straight face. Finally, when the Soviet ambassador explains that they executed the guy who invited them in because he was working for the CIA, Phred completely cracks up laughing, whereupon the Soviet ambassador turns to him and yells, “IT’S TRUE, DAMMIT!” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/408 "2011-08-03T16:27:22Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > just unclear on what you think his ‘truth’ is. About eight shots by 10 a.m. if Red is true to form. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/409 "2011-08-03T16:40:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Er, just to be clear, are you saying you agree with **Commissar’s** adulation of Ghaddafi, that you believe that the NATO intervention in Libya is in fact some sort of ‘crusade’ by ‘Christendom’, are you supporting him simply because he claims to be a Communist, or what? > > Not trying to start a fight here, just unclear on what you think his ‘truth’ is. I don’t support his politics nor his adulation of Gaddafi. I do however agree with him that the intervention was an uncalled for power-play by the members involved. [**Nightly Britain bombs Tripoli. Bar death, what do we achieve?**](http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/02/britain-bombs-libya-whitehall) > [@](#): > > The Libyan rebels, portrayed by Whitehall propagandists as plucky little democrats, are hardly more sympathetic than Gaddafi’s supporters, with those in the east at odds both with each other and with those in the west. While Britain claims to be “protecting” the population, the latest, admittedly unreliable, estimates put the civilian toll from bombing at 1,100 dead and countless injured. Certainly hundreds must have died. The RAF is clearly running out of targets and must justify each new attack in terms more appropriate to a Maoist hysteric. Last week the Tripoli television station was destroyed and reporters killed, “to disrupt the broadcast of Gaddafi’s murderous rhetoric”. What has that to do with the original war aim? > > \ > > From poll tax and Iraq to the NHS and Libya, the march of folly through British government seems unstoppable. Now each night a pilot flies over Tripoli and drops bombs on it, achieving nothing but death and destruction. Libya is not a dependency of the United Kingdom. It was and is no threat to Britain or its people, and the consequent rise in the price of oil is not in Britain’s interest. Libya is in the grip of a wretched civil war that Britain might have relieved with aid, but not bombers. It is a mistake. But who will say so? Countless other articles which more or less make a similar point – which I agree with. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/410 "2011-08-03T16:46:54Z")
Yes, what has disrupting the propaganda network of the ruling regime got to do with reducing the ability of the ruling regime to direct and influence events? Truly, you are a mind for the ages. Or an inbred, bastard-offspring of a syphilitic prostitute. Could go either way. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/411 "2011-08-03T16:59:11Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Yes, what has disrupting the propaganda network of the ruling regime got to do with reducing the ability of the ruling regime to direct and influence events? Truly, you are a mind for the ages. Or an inbred, bastard-offspring of a syphilitic prostitute. Could go either way. Hi **Frothy**. Must say, your posting style has finally taken a turn for the better. Short and to the point, sparing us the use of the scroll-wheel. Kudos, young man. Stay on the meds. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407/412 "2011-08-03T18:10:43Z")
Closing this because **Commissar** is no longer in town. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commissar-is-a-troll/572407.md?page=20)