trump is a troll and an idiot. Probably so is D_D.
Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?
Indeed. They’ll be happy to have a rat on a stick in front of a burning dumpster, as long as THAT GROUP over there has no rat or fire.
Dodgy_Dude … David Dennison … Do I detect a pattern here?

They’ll be happy to have a rat on a stick in front of a burning dumpster, as long as THAT GROUP over there has no rat or fire.
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
Attributed to commenter Davis X. Machina, in a post at Balloon Juice.
It (Dodgy_Dude) is a bot. “Why do people like gravity? How is it real?” Same thing. I think we"ll see some of these posts quoted on the Tucker show tomorrow, as “What theft really thinks about Trump and how violent they are!”
Wouldn’t surprise me.

Can someone explain - calmly and without exaggeration - exactly/specifically/precisely what @Dodgy_Dude has done to drive his haters into such a frenzy?
They have. In this thread. Please read it. Unless you are whooshing us by doing exactly what DD did. A whoosh in bad taste, even so.
Not really, that was such a blatant parody of the DD OP that it is not and can not be in bad taste.
It isn’t a whoosh, you whooshed yourself.
It isn’t in bad taste, it is pretty normal, especially in the Pit.

it is pretty normal
I got called normal by a mod in the Pit. Oh the shame! Now I feel so unoriginal.
No, no Mod color, no Mod hat. You post got called normal by a fellow member. Also technically, as this is the Dope, I just called your post normal. I made no comment on your normality. I’ll leave that to professionals
DD’s pal in the thread that started this one was banned as a troll and most likely Trock.
Trock’s Beard
I Grock Trock
*Grok
I know. I was going for symmetry with the spelling.
Ah, poetic license. That’s ok then.
Let me just remind folks that Dodgy Dude is the same poster as @A_Dodgy_Dude. Note that A Dodgy Dude last posted (and visited) the board on June 9, 2020. Dodgy Dude joined the board exactly one month later. They post the exact same stuff… Also, Dodgy Dude’s “name” (what you can put in your name field for your account here) is literally “A Dodgy Dude”, same as the older account. I don’t even think this is technically socking, my guess is that it was lost access from the old account, and they created a new account with practically the same name. (A number of people have done this, especially when we moved to Discourse.) So if you want the full body of work for this poster (going back to 2008, a year before I joined) you’ll have to look at the old account too.
Anyway, this was brought to my attention with yet another thread created inappropriately. Actually, the thread itself isn’t bad, I even posted in it because it’s interesting, but the thread name has nothing to do with what the thread is about. You’d think they’d know better after posting here for 15 years.
(The thread is called “Kelly’s Heroes and Die Hard with a Vengance” and was posted in Cafe Society, even though it’s a thread about what you’d do with a bar of gold bullion and has nothing to do with either film.)
Maybe just a slow learner.

I don’t even think this is technically socking, my guess is that it was lost access from the old account, and they created a new account with practically the same name. (A number of people have done this, especially when we moved to Discourse.)
Showing up late to the party to add that I strongly suspect that any poster that couldn’t manage to log in to their SDMB account after the change to discourse was engaged in sock behavior and just forgot which throwaway email address they used to register that particular sock. I further suspect that where, as here, there is a pattern of a poster posting disproportionately in low-effort threads of it’s own creation, over a long period of time but with frequent periods of inactivity, that the account is demonstrating sock behavior.
Threads expressing a lack of understanding about why people hate Trump only further cements them as a trock, IMHO.
Suspect is one thing, but loads of posters, well established posters had issues with the move from vB to Discourse.
As far as trolling goes, this barely counts it seems. If he’s a troll, he’s a very minor one.
Usually, when someone had a hard time with the transition, it’s because their email address in their profile wasn’t current, which could mean that it was a throwaway email address, but it could also mean that it was an email address associated with an ISP or workplace and they’ve since changed that (remember, this board is old enough to go back before the notion of a permanent email address that would stick with you through jobs, schools, ISPs, etc.). Technically, it was a violation of the board rules for those folks not to go through and change their profile when they changed their email address, but it’s not a violation that we’re overly worried about enforcing.