OOH! If we’re all secretly supervillains and members of the Legion of Doom, like Der Trihs seems to think, I call Grodd. That way I can keep the whole monkey theme going.
I have a theory that Der Trihs is actually a secret right wing troll from Free Republic or somewhere like that, trying to make liberals look bad. Because he comes off as a parody of how they paint the left.
Honestly? His posts were hyperbolic, but don’t come anywhere close to trolling. I doubt the capacity of a free republic member for parody.
Of course he’s not trolling. Nobody said he was. You’re new (relatively) so you don’t know this, but he has been doing this shit for over ten years. He’s not a troll. He’s genuinely nuts.
As an addendum, Der Trihs’s membership only says “2005” but he was here when I joined in 2001 so he’s been here a very, very long time. I’m assuming that is due to Creative Loafing general screwing up the SDMB pay structure back in the mid 2000’s regarding charter members/ members / guests and he never bothered to care. I don’t blame him for that, I didn’t care, myself.
So: Not a troll. Just a resident insane person.
Post, Post script: Wait, I’m no longer sure Der Tirhs predates me. Maybe he didn’t join til 2005. He’s just such a predictable nutcase that it seems longer. Maybe he has only been around for seven years. But regardless of that, this is what you need to know:
The groups he doesn’t like are comic book evil. It’s his MO. And he’s been doing it for way too long for him to be a troll. He’s just nuts.
Glad to see it wasn’t just me who read it that way at first.
I try to avoid opining on afterlife activities for the recently deceased but I too am always suspicious of people who suddenly “find Jesus” after being caught doing something heinous and then hold out that conversion like a shield to prevent any further fallout from their previous actions. So I’m not a Colson fan by any means and I think on balance he has made the country a much worse place. The sincerity of his conversion and repentance is something that he can take up with a Higher Power.
How about “You’re comic-book naive for thinking that people like Colson are complex, nuanced thinkers”? When he worked for Nixon, he acknowledged that his job was to perform any task that would make Nixon look good, Democrats look bad, and so on. He was a comic book villain who would cheerfully break any law, lie about anything, misuse any funds whatsoever, as long as he thought he wouldn’t caught. How does this differ from a comic book villain?
Well, Colson got caught.
And he wears his tights under his suit.
And he never really got the evil laugh right.
He wasn’t in it for the money?
I’m trying to work out the meter on this. Is it trochaic, [you’re a crazy person] or is there a primary stress on the first syllable of crazy [you’re a CRA-zy person]?
Then again, neither are most of the comic book villains, really – if they just wanted money, it would be much easier to get.
Does it count if we have pictures of him putting sugar on his porridge while making the statement?
Wait, what? I’m not defending Colson! God damn you’re dumb. I just don’t think Republicans are waging biological warfare on Africa. Do you? Der Trihs does and that belief is insane.
I’m glad you recognize that I don’t participate in the hate-fests…and that finger pointing at “Obama-haters” like me is just a tactic and has no real merit.
How does that follow from anything anyone here has said?
Post #75 may help… maybe not.
Cite?