# Pitting Honeybadger

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/633 "2023-11-09T19:25:43Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> Jeez, just leave this poster alone. When he posts some weird scientific theory, explain why it’s wrong or impossible and leave the thread. That thread about sperm or whatever was really pretty nasty for an IMHO thread. There was no reason for all the rancor.

Just for the record, the reasons some people can’t let HBDC go is that between his unsourced musings he periodically JUMPS from gross to HORRIFIC. The one that got me to put him on perpetual ignore was this one:

> Holy fuckballs, he’s made an absolute, utter, and unforgivable jerk of himself in the current “Danger Will Robinson” thread about Texas Syphilis explosion. Illegals are apparently all disease vectors and sex workers. OMFG.

And then there was this egregious POS -

> [@Question about gay lifestyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-gay-lifestyle/973633):
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> Over the years I have known several people who weren’t really gay but they were unable to attract a mate of the opposite sex and eventually hooked up with their very close friends of the same sex. They watch straight porn and enjoy looking at beautiful women. Most of them that I have known stay in their relationships for very long times usually lifetimes. Years ago pronouns weren’t really discussed so it never came up but now the same couples identify usually as gay. But are they really gay? I n…

(yes discourse, I know it’s been linked upthread, but people need reminding of what sort of person this is)

And speaking directly to @RitterSport again, I’ll repost another sequence from upthread.

> [@Atamasama](#):
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> > [@RitterSport](#):
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> > No, he’s just badly misinformed. He’s living in the right-wing mediasphere and those folks really believe those things.
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> I don’t think it’s as simple as that. He’s being deliberately provocative by hijacking a thread with the same claims he’s made before, intentionally to rile people up. He never backs up anything he says, and what he says is completely contradictory.
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> He’s not living in the right wing media sphere because he’s **here**. There are threads documenting what Trump has done, his indictments, threads about Fox News admitting to lies, and yet he insists that Biden is the one who’s some massive criminal and the worst president in recent years.
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> There is no excuse for that. If he truly believed what he was saying, he wouldn’t be here. I am convinced he’s just stirring up shit for his own amusement. He’s not a poor lost soul, he’s a wannabe agent provocateur.

So yeah, I’ll grant the thread was nasty, just barely hugging the lines of acceptable behavior. But people forget, HB isn’t just flinging stoner thoughts, he is actively attacking anyone he thinks he can get away with, using the JAQ style as a pathetic cover. He knows better. He’s been warned over and over again. But as the return from the self selected ban has proven, he can’t resist the trolling.

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