# Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349>\
**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")\
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**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1266 "2020-10-09T06:08:10Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> It’s also why Mr. **Mortiss** keeps dropping his little turds into the punchbowl and then running away - he knows he can’t defend his statements so he just asserts victory and vanishes.

Here’s a new one: in the [thread on the plot to attack Gov Gretchen Whitmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plot-to-kidnap-mi-gov-gretchen-whitmer/922506), **Mortiss** writes in post #43:

> I don’t condone this kidnapping plot. But, the famous quote comes to mind:
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> “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

So he’s not condoning it, but he’s justifiying it.

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