Happy Thanksgiving? What do you mean by that? I dunno. I don’t see how “regards” is whiny. It’s just something he does at the end of each of his posts.
I’m offended that you lump me in with the Nazis: I’m only a member of the National Socialist party of America! And don’t even THINK about any backhanded praise like “I think people are a little too hard on Ludovic!” because I will fucking REPORT your ass!
I can think of lots of things to pit Shodan for but I can’t tell if the OP is about any of them apart from his signature signature [sic], which is not one of the things that bother me.
When come back, bring clarification (and pumpkin pie).
Then you’ve made him very, very happy. Because this is the only reason he posts here; to piss people off. Full stop. He’s a fucking obvious troll, and it is astounding that the mods allow him to stay.
On non-political threads he can be an articulate and constructive poster.
On anything with a potential political slant he ignores most of the responses and only stops by to accuse everyone in snarky drivebys of IOKIADDIism whilst simultaneously handwaving away any right-wing malfeasance on a IOKIARDI basis. Projection is a harsh mistress.
I don’t know why some people get all worked up about a stupid signature line. And I’m not seeing how that makes him a crybaby. I generally don’t care for Shodan’s method of debate, but he can be funny at times.
What I was going to say, only probably less concisely.
I don’t really care about the “Regards” schtick. Yes, it’s passive-aggressive bullshit on the level of “Democrat party”, but it’s pretty mild passive-aggressive bullshit.
That’s what I came in here to say. I’d describe Shodan’s “Regards” as a form of low-level trolling—maybe “trolly” is the right adjective. It doesn’t particularly bother me, but I don’t see it as entirely benign either. Shodan is one of those right-wingers who seems to think that “pissing off liberals” is one of the primary goals of conservatism, and “Regards” is his permanently-extended middle finger towards anyone who is Not Republican.
I feel the same way about “Democrat Party.” It’s a childish epithet, but it gets an eye-roll from me at most. It’s possible to acknowledge that something is intended to be annoying without being personally bothered by it (a point that seems to elude some Dopers).