# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 123
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6920 "2022-08-14T15:16:00Z")
No, don’t you see? Liberals were railing against the police for not obeying the law, but now, they’re railing against Trump for not obeying the law! Can’t you see the hypocrisy? If we support the law in one aspect, to be consistent, we must oppose the law in every other aspect! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6921 "2022-08-14T16:17:47Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > What’s the cephalapod equivalent to liberal tears? Inky discharge? Oh, is _that_ what was running down Rudy’s head? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6922 "2022-08-14T16:55:44Z")
You cracked the code! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6923 "2022-08-14T16:58:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > What’s the cephalapod equivalent to liberal tears? Inky discharge? There is a term for it; it’s called [santorum](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/santorum). ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6924 "2022-08-14T17:31:39Z")
I can’t handle different ideas? Then why do I engage with the hive? Your assertion has no bearing in reality. What I handle poorly, admittedly, are double standards and hypocrisy and the philosophy that consistent values don’t matter as long as the ends justify the means. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6925 "2022-08-14T17:31:50Z")
Octopus, Truth Social is just an app away from you finding paradise. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6926 "2022-08-14T17:34:53Z")
As I said before, and I know you think you are being clever, I see more value in discussions with those I disagree with than I do in looking for my own hive of rigidly enforced, unthinking, conformity. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6927 "2022-08-14T17:40:55Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What I handle poorly, admittedly, are double standards and hypocrisy and the philosophy that consistent values don’t matter as long as the ends justify the means. Yes, but somehow you never post your outrage when it’s conservatives doing it. It’s almost as if your a hypocrite with double standards and no consistent values. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6928 "2022-08-14T17:49:00Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Ah, yeah, you all are correct. This ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6929 "2022-08-14T17:52:37Z")
It is funny that someone that very recently got a warning for deliberately trying to derail a thread . . . is deliberately derailing this thread. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6930 "2022-08-14T17:56:51Z")
I’ve addressed that before. When 50 of you are doing a good job does a post by lil ol octopus saying “I agree!” carry that much weight? Again, I don’t find much value in joining a chorus. When something is really egregious like the failure to hold a vote on Merrick Garland, I speak up. General shenanigans? You all got that handled. I just found it jarring the change in tone just like I found it jarring to see a Republican rep referred to as a cunt. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6931 "2022-08-14T17:56:55Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > It is funny that someone that very recently got a warning for deliberately trying to derail a thread . . . is deliberately derailing this thread. This thread is boon as much as bane. OTOH, it’s a troll hammer, OTO a troll magnet. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6932 "2022-08-14T17:57:28Z")
Flag my posts then. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6933 "2022-08-14T18:03:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I can’t handle different ideas? Then why do I engage with the hive? Oh heavens me. _That’s_ what you think you do here? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6934 "2022-08-14T18:04:24Z")
I really would like to see those posts. I’m not claiming you did not; I’m merely asking. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6935 "2022-08-14T18:14:21Z")
> [@Better Conservatives? Where?! (A response to Coffeecat)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-conservatives-where-a-response-to-coffeecat/822208/375): > > You talking about the Garland issue? I agree that that was shameful behavior. > [@The way things are looking why isn't the GOP scrambling to approve SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-things-are-looking-why-isnt-the-gop-scrambling-to-approve-scotus-nominee-merrick-garland/757443/13): > > 100% this. Pres. Obama has every right to have his nominee voted on. > [@Did Pelosi just un-invite Trump from the State of the Union?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-pelosi-just-un-invite-trump-from-the-state-of-the-union/827898/391): > > A younger more partisan version of myself might have jumped on the bandwagon concerning Clinton. Actual perjury is a serious problem. At this point in time, I think the constant persecution of Clinton was problematic. I also have a problem with Garland never having a vote. I think we have become hyper partisan which leads to existential vulnerabilities. Nixon? Yeah. That watergate nonsense meant impeachment proceedings were reasonable. > [@Kavanaugh supporters: Do you think he lied?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-supporters-do-you-think-he-lied/822225/28): > > Is the lying disqualifying? In an ideal world I would hope perjury was treated seriously. Practically speaking, especially concerning sexual or other activity as a teen or 20 years past I think this is one of those things that people who are in the situation Kavanaugh is in, the behavior we would like to see is vastly different than the behavior the person on the hot seat thinks the court of public opinion wants to see. In this age of mass media and social media we aren’t seeing performances … Gee, bad ol’ disruptive octopus could have told you to ‘fuck off cunt.’ Nope, even in the pit I engage constructively with anyone who is being the least bit civil. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6936 "2022-08-14T18:33:39Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > I can’t handle different ideas? Then why do I engage with the hive? That’s not engaging, the post that took you again to the pit was spitting at others _who are not a hive_, no matter how much you drone about that stupid right wing mantra. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6937 "2022-08-14T18:39:51Z")
All right, so you did say that Garland should have had his confirmation hearing. Did you excoriate McConnell and the Senate Republicans for fast-tracking Trump’s nominees in _his_ last year? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6938 "2022-08-14T18:40:07Z")
But you don’t engage. All you do is repeat the same cite-free accusations of supposed “hive” behavior, hypocrisy, and other nonsense, over and over again. Engagement would actually be considering the ideas of those that disagree with you. There are good and bad posts from liberals on this board. For some reason, you spend 99% of your time on here trying to call out the latter (mostly inaccurately IMO), and virtually none of your time engaging with the former. Not sure why you do that, but it’s because of that that so many call you a troll. Good posters actually engage. Trolls repeat the same bullshit accusations over and over again. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/6939 "2022-08-14T18:50:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Wonderful metaphor…or is it a metaphor? A meta-eight? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=122) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=124)