# 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:** 61
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5680 "2022-03-31T10:37:57Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > It’s the teeth. Bullshit. It’s the purple collar. Fuckin’ purple collar people, can’t trust 'em. And, don’t call me a collarist! It’s just a fact that purple collar people are less prone to breaking up fights than us normal white- and blue-collar people. I know this board is too woke to accept that, but it’s just science. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5681 "2022-03-31T11:06:34Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > {…} You sound insane. {…} Sound? > [@Why hasn't Colin Farell been charged with rape?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-colin-farell-been-charged-with-rape/340861): > > The guy makes a movie. The young girl opposite him ( Playing Pocahontas to his John Smith ) is, according the CNN this morning, age 14 when the film was shot. There are love scenes. Most places, if you put your hands on a girl age 14 no matter WHAT the “excuse”, you’re busted bigtime. Somehow this guy does love scenes, and everyone takes a pass on him? I’m wondering what the difference is between a love scene involving a 14 year old, and Roman Polanski’s 14 year old. ( or 13. Can’t remember whi… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5682 "2022-03-31T11:19:53Z")
> [@Let's Debate Race!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-debate-race/961982/1): > > We should not think for a moment that the internet prohibits this (Reno v ACLU, 521 US 844) This is what was being referenced for some reason, BTW. > **[Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno_v._American_Civil_Liberties_Union)** > > Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, unanimously ruling that anti-indecency provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. This was the first major Supreme Court ruling on the regulation of materials distributed via the Internet. > The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was an attempt to protect minors from explicit material on the Internet by... ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5683 "2022-03-31T11:29:34Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > > [@dirtball](#): > > > > It’s the teeth. > > Bullshit. It’s the purple collar. Fuckin’ purple collar people, can’t trust 'em. And, don’t call me a collarist! It’s just a fact that purple collar people are less prone to breaking up fights than us normal white- and blue-collar people. I know this board is too woke to accept that, but it’s just science. It’s okay to be collar blind. Really, it is. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5684 "2022-03-31T11:57:59Z")
I believe it was a “it’s not illegal to discuss uncomfortable issues despite what SOME PEOPLE would have you believe” thing. Or maybe he thinks that the case forbids the sdmb from moderating speech. I dunno. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5685 "2022-03-31T12:11:31Z")
Ugh. Cartooniverse is one of my fave Dopers. Hope he (assuming) can explain this. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5686 "2022-03-31T12:12:26Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > > [@RitterSport](#): > > > > > [@dirtball](#): > > > > > > It’s the teeth. > > > > Bullshit. It’s the purple collar. Fuckin’ purple collar people, can’t trust 'em. And, don’t call me a collarist! It’s just a fact that purple collar people are less prone to breaking up fights than us normal white- and blue-collar people. I know this board is too woke to accept that, but it’s just science. > > It’s okay to be collar blind. Really, it is. - [rolls up newspaper] Hold still. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5687 "2022-03-31T13:02:36Z")
I don’t see collar. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5688 "2022-03-31T13:09:40Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > I don’t see collar. - Yeah, well, you’re up to your neck in it. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5689 "2022-03-31T13:09:47Z")
Those collared people will ruin society. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5690 "2022-03-31T13:11:39Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Those collared people will ruin society. - Tie it in knots, they will. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5691 "2022-03-31T13:19:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Ugh. Cartooniverse is one of my fave Dopers. Hope he (assuming) can explain this. I mean, fuck. The Colin Farrell rape thread was mentioned above, but there’s also this total shitshow from 8 years ago. Sanity was never a big part of Cartooniverse’s posts except by accident: > [@Going to Germany this summer. How much Neo-Naziism will we encounter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-germany-this-summer-how-much-neo-naziism-will-we-encounter/691146): > > Sadly, the movement is [alive and well](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/germany/140128/germany-neo-nazis-npd) all over Germany. Their power is slowly increasing- [2 Neo-Nazis have just been elected to the European Parliament](http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/neo-nazi-parties-win-seats-in-2-european-parliament-elections/2014/05/26/). As we travel throughout the country, how much iconography and in-your-face displays of Nazi support are we likely to encounter? [This image from December 2013](http://cdn7.dottech.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/neo-nazi.jpg?154756) makes it abundantly clear that laws on the books in Germany regarding display of a swastika are, well, a joke. There are hundreds to be found in Google Image Search, this is hardly a one-o… ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5692 "2022-03-31T13:36:46Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Fuckin’ purple collar people, can’t trust 'em. One-eyed, one-horned, fuckin’ purple collar people sure look strange to me. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5693 "2022-03-31T14:08:15Z")
WTF, @Roger_That?? Those examples in your currently locked Trump thread in P&E are disgusting. If I were a mod, you’d get a warning. I imagine the reports are flying in, which is why the thread is locked. Were you trying to have a serious discussion? Because your follow-up posts don’t seem to show any seriousness. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5694 "2022-03-31T14:11:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Those collared people will ruin society. It’s their greens I’m worried about. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5695 "2022-03-31T14:16:59Z")
**Roger** got attention in the previous thread as well. > [@Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/3441): > > When a poster suddenly pops up on my radar as [an obnoxious dick for no good reason](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-indian-tribes-who-lived-inland-before-1492-conceive-of-the-atlantic-and-pacific-oceans/942786/50), it often sets the troll bells ringing. When they start making [ATMB threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-newbie-questions-for-what-exit/943164) “defending” themselves (for want of a better word) the bells ring louder. When I look up their profile and see a 5-month posting hiatus, they also start to smell like a sock drawer. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5696 "2022-03-31T14:26:34Z")
Before this, I just had a vaguely negative impression of **RT** , but not linked to anything specific. Not anymore! ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5697 "2022-03-31T14:53:46Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > **Roger** got attention in the previous thread as well. He’s had the “potential trock” notice for some time, yup. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5698 "2022-03-31T15:14:22Z")
**Roger** bumped the “explain the Hunter Biden scandal” thread in P&E to play a guessing game: “there are some interesting links in this Twitter thread but I won’t say which ones they are!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518/5699 "2022-03-31T15:31:32Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > WTF, @Roger_That?? Those examples in your currently locked Trump thread in P&E are disgusting. If I were a mod, you’d get a warning. I imagine the reports are flying in, which is why the thread is locked. Just saw that, and holy crap. IANA Mod but at the very least there’s a big ol’ Warning coming his way, if not a suspension or worse, because that was either trolling or batshit insanity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=60) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518.md?page=62)