Linty’s Corollary to Princhester’s Law of Godwin for Basement Dwellers: It really speeds the unity process along if you prove yourself to be a drooling fuckwit who no one would bang on a dare with every post. Also, bragging about your Asperger’s doesn’t exactly hurt.
Great, now you fucking tell me!
Seriously, though, I’ve met some of those women. It’s not like they put out for anyone with a Che T-shirt and an attitude. You have to come to the table with a little something. Like I mentioned above, Trihs likes to talk about his Asperger’s. He also likes to complain about getting beaten up in high school (Keep in mind that he really is 40). Now maybe there’s a place in the world where that combination will guarantee that you’ll be washed and waxed every weekend, and if so, I’m really, REALLY sorry I didn’t grow up there, but I kind of doubt it. There are leftists who give out that sense of danger, who don’t mind being beaten up by police and dockworkers and then there are leftists who are like . . . Trihs. There’s a good reason deodorant makers give their products names like “Axe Body Spray” and not “Pathos” or “Autism.”
Why would I include those? There’s nothing remotely sexy about any of them. The Commie persona is only sexy when it’s embodied by a handsome, bearded, rebellious hero.
There is a difference between randomly walking up to people and insulting them until you get your ass kicked and having strongly held personal beliefs that basically define you that you are afraid to voice in public.
Too true. I mean, I express more-or-less the same opinions as DT about most things, we’re around the same age, and no-one has expressed any doubts that I am indeed married with a kid and do not, in fact, live with my parents. Why is that? Just because he said he had Asberger’s? Stereotype much?
Almost no one fully expresses their most unpopular beliefs at work or with casual acquaintances. The notion that failure to do so is a “textbook” definition of trolling is stupid.
In this thread I’m seeing Der Trihs’ detractors threatening violence, and using irrelevant personal insults to make themselves feel superior… along with the stupid definition of trolling.
Mr. Trihs is definitely looking better and better as this thread progresses.
I called it cowardice, not trolling. To me there has to be an element of dishonesty. I don’t know if that is the textbook definition. I believe he believes everything he says. I also believe for past posts that he is unwilling to say in public to anyone most of the shit he spews here, not just a few cherished secrets.
If I told people everything I actually think of them and certain situations, I’d have no job and less friends than I do now.
One of the advantages of the internet is that you can tell someone what you really think of them without the risk of them getting all Neanderthal and wanting to hit you rather than dismiss you or fight you with words.
Wait a sec. On Page 1 you were saying that Der Trihs was a not so latent homosexual who would give up his wife to a rapist in order to toss the dude’s salad. On Page 2 you’re suggesting that he’s scored lots of hippie chicks.
Please try to keep your vivid fantasies about Der Trihs’ sex life consistent. It’s hard to follow along if you vacillate, although I know it can ruin the mood if you fetishistically adhere to one thing. It’s just that switching up as often as you have undermines your strong argument about him.
Der Trihs and I certainly have our differences, and I know that he dislikes me due to my political and religious opinions. However, it bothers me every time I see someone say that he lives in his parents’ basement. His parents are no longer living, and being about his age and having a husband whose parents are also both dead, I have an idea what it’s like to be in that situation. It pretty much sucks. I know that the folks who make these comments don’t realize that his parents are dead, but it goes to show how you can rub salt in wounds without even knowing it by conjecturing about peoples’ personal lives.
I don’t mean to sound like I’m finger-wagging, this has just been bugging me and I had to get it off my chest.
Or maybe it’s because you don’t act like an asshole with no social skills? At least that’s probably why you don’t generate the same ire that Der Trihs has. Because you’re not a bitter, hateful asshat.
(I do agree that the “parents’ basement” bullshit though is wearing extremely thin)
Eh, I don’t think there is anything wrong with ‘prudence’ in expressing one’s views. People treat it like it’s intellectual dishonesty for people to have tact off the forum that they don’t have on the forum. That’s stupid. I don’t go around alienating people by expressing my controversial views all over town. (I’ve done plenty of it but I regret much of it) There is a time and a place, and this is certainly the time and the place.
