# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349 "2020-06-27T06:30:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 91
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1807 "2020-12-05T16:06:37Z")
They already been cornfielded? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1808 "2020-12-05T16:12:11Z")
[Not.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-or-fornication/927252/)[Quite.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-without-killing/927063/) Yet. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1809 "2020-12-05T17:20:28Z")
Ah, you were missing an l. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1810 "2020-12-05T17:28:51Z")
It was an unfortunate Xmas present accident. I don’t like to talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1811 "2020-12-05T17:36:12Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > [Quite.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-without-killing/927063/) **Jillena** asking questions and **kanicbird** giving extensive cited answers seems to be a match made in heaven. I suggest we just let the two of them get on with it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1812 "2020-12-05T18:16:23Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Shodan maintains a narrow lead. Dunno if any of those were super-long omnibus threads tho–IIRC the last one for Clothy was indeed of that type. Nowadays instead of starting 2 dozen threads on the bugger in question we now just rezz the omnibus one over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1813 "2020-12-05T20:29:01Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > I suggest we just let the two of them get on with it. Free to become ‘one flesh’ in the ‘eyes of god’. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1814 "2020-12-05T20:36:49Z")
I just went to find out what other thread **Jillena** was up to beside the eating without killing nonsense. Jeebus that love vs sex thread is painful. She’s either psycho, an emotional child, or a troll reeling in peoples’ chains. Count me out of her stuff. As I mentioned upthread, the one-line uncomprehending kneejerk response posts are really tiresome. I wonder if she has some mistaken notion that padding her post count will keep her below the notice threshold of the bouncers around here. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1815 "2020-12-05T20:45:51Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I just hate it when people pretend they want to learn but in fact have no interest in learning. It’s a waste of time for the people trying to do the teaching. Not necessarily, because there may well be lurkers reading, and old threads often come up in Google searches (or at least used to before the move to Discourse). When I was lurking I was reasonably often convinced by arguments that did not change the minds of any posters. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1816 "2020-12-05T20:48:05Z")
Well, that’s good to know. Now I’m freaked out by the idea of all those lurkers watching our every move! 😳 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1817 "2020-12-05T20:53:54Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Now I’m freaked out by the idea of all those lurkers watching our every move! Literally no different from posters watching your every move 🙂. I lurked for months before first posting on the old board. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1818 "2020-12-05T20:55:07Z")
Uh, sorry about that? As for UR2, I don’t think he’s here to learn, but it’s useful to have an insight into the mind of a Trump supporter. And also it’s easy to over-estimate what people outside the progressive bubble know and how much their minds have really changed. UR2 is a good illustration. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1819 "2020-12-05T20:59:15Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > Now I’m freaked out by the idea of all those lurkers watching our every move! > > Literally no different from posters watching your every move 🙂. I lurked for months before first posting on the old board. Yeah, but I know who you guys are! I’m really only joking. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1820 "2020-12-05T21:07:08Z")
Equally useful to know how pointless it is to try to persuade them of something they are determined to be wrong about. Their entire identity is vested in their right wing ignorance, but they view it as a virtue, and rebuff every attempt to inform or reason them out of it. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1821 "2020-12-05T21:10:30Z")
> [@Eating without killing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-without-killing/927063/40): > > Hahaha yes it was silly tee hee That right there was one of NINE replies in a row from Jillena. All of them contentless, unneeded, cutesy, and oh my god, giggly. That was from her “what can you eat without killing” thread, where she doesn’t want to eat seeds because they could have become a tree. But animals can eat them whole, but they can eat anything, because they don’t have a soul, or morals, or something… I gave up. Especially when she started giving short platitudes to every poster who replied: “Good point, Jimbo.” “I like your post, Boyjim” … (It was a little like that James Otto fan 😍 😍 😍 😍 all over again) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1822 "2020-12-05T21:18:53Z")
Either she’s not real or she hasn’t been paying attention at all to the culture here. Could go 50/50. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1823 "2020-12-05T22:19:23Z")
I vote not real. Or some sort of psycho/emotional problem too big for us to made a dent in. Which amounts to the same thing; we’re not going to get through to her; she’s pure neutronium. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1824 "2020-12-05T22:24:48Z")
> [@digs](#): > > All of them contentless, unneeded, cutesy, and oh my god, giggly. Yeah. I don’t care for that. Not at all. 😠 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1825 "2020-12-05T22:53:21Z")
> [@digs](#): > > (It was a little like that James Otto fan 😍 😍 😍 😍 all over again) Oh, she, man, was a TRIP. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1826 "2020-12-05T23:04:12Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Literally no different from posters watching your every move 🙂. I lurked for months before first posting on the old board. You’re an amateur lurker. I have been reading the SB faithfully since the late 1990s. Didn’t join until 2005. I still rarely post, although I read the dope multiple times a day…! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349.md?page=92)