Oh, he’s sincere–but he has no interest in either listening to other people, or persuading other people, of anything. He just wants to pop off hostile gibberish so that he can feel good about himself and piss off the people he thinks are wrong about everything.
He’s a persistent fart of a poster.
I don’t agree with almost anything WillFarnaby says, but I’ve never doubted that he actually believes in that nonsense. Nor do I doubt that his willingness to argue his beliefs keeps the board intellectually honest (and not incidentally, he is correct about things from time to time). He’s like that card-carrying communist guy we used to have; sure, he was mostly a crackpot, but he was a consistent crackpot.
As far as TPTB on the SDMB are concerned, sincerity and trolling are not mutually exclusive.
Um, no.
Responding to other posters by reasoned counter-argument: not trolling
Responding to other poster by being a condescending schmuck: trolling.
Big difference.
Yeah, the President who raised the issue of an unprovoked war with North Korea, and who previously supported the disasterous invasion of Iraq before the shit hit the fan (at which point he predictably started saying he never supported it) is the peace candidate?
Give me a break. That is a crazy controversial statement because it’s fucking looney tunes. If you believe it, I’ve got some great Trump steals that you’d probably like to buy, too.
It’s like the boast of a beggar.
Re: CaptMurdock
Yes I should respond to being called a shithead, dumb, and a troll with reasoned counter-argument. Get a grip, bud.
He made a great many antiwar statements during the campaign and maligned the frothing warmonger John McCain. That was enough to put him above Hillary at the time, who was calling for a US enforced no-fly zone in Syria. A position that would have required tens of thousands of boots on the ground.
Indeed after he took a turn toward hiring warmongers I backed off the claim and in the end supported a Clinton win.
JB Weld is some good shit.
The main sign I have of him being fake is that he completely changed at one point. He used to make more sense.
But, frankly, he’s not offensive enough for me to give a shit. I put him on ignore after a while, and then it doesn’t really matter. People seem to slowly be getting the hint of just not replying to him, so I don’t see his stuff.
If he actually provided something of worth, it might be different, but it really seems he doesn’t. He just makes people mad.
You shouldn’t speak of your betters like that. Didn’t you start a thread about messing with a mentally challenged teen? Or do I have you confused with some other freak?
Yeah. This forum is very weird like that. The people who spend a disproportionate amount of time pitting and snarking on others think the real transgressions are any form of response. They’d fit in well in some weird dystopian society.
I could tell you how to easily find the answer to that but you would have to visit Snarkville. 
Maybe you should. It’s a lot harder to be engaged in a screamfest with a calm person.
Just some friendly advice, bunkie.
If you open with a reasoned argument, you may find these responses unnecessary.
It’s bullshit. A handful of assholes here have twisted a misunderstanding on my part into a bizarre story where I somehow abused an underaged retarded girl (I didn’t, and her “mental disorder” was gender dysphoria). This was over half a decade ago, mind you. I’ve repeatedly asked the moderators to do something about it, this kind of shit is really fucking low, but apparently we can add “maliciously inventing lies about members” to the list of things they’re bad at dealing with, along with “trolling”.
Is there a link?
I can’t speak for octopus, but my guess is he’s noticed your wrath toward others comes off heavy-handed & often enough that one could be forgiven if they got a vibe of someone who lives in a glass house. If you toned it down some, he probably wouldn’t have brought it up. And it does seem out of character for him to do that because inserting extraneous gossip could get him accused of hypocrisy. That is kind of what he’s usually campaigning against.
So maybe that does or doesn’t tell you something. I don’t quite know enough to know why it has stuck other than I can see why someone might want to believe in the “People who live in glass houses” adage.
I think it’s likely WillF’s stated beliefs about politics are sincere. It’s his attempts at analysis (and often what appears to be mind-reading) of liberals/progressives that I find hilarious, and what keeps me from blocking him – it’s as if he was a Christian whose only conception and understanding of non-Christians came from Jack Chick tracts. I hope he sticks around, extreme hostility and all, just based on the entertainment value of how hilariously wrong he usually is when he tries to pontificate about those he very clearly despises.
doorhinge, on the other hand (along with a few others), don’t contribute anything at all to the board, IMO. Nothing amusing and nothing informative.
andy should be BPC’s role model. All of the progressive sanctimony, none of the fragility.