In the Bud Light thread, our friend from the East has suddenly feigned naivete about what the term “right-wing” means. He then sets his Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer vibes aside to declare that he’s a “Centrist”.
The evidence of every other freaking post by him on this board may suggest otherwise.
I agree that it is a feigned trolling act to pretend to not know what right wing is. However, if the poster were genuine, which they aren’t, I do seem to recall seemingly reasonable posts from them on occasion, even though I can’t be arsed to look for them. Which doesn’t make them not right-wing, but if you mainly hang out in right wing circles, you could understandably but incorrectly consider yourself a centrist because there are a lot of even crazier mofos out there.
So - center-far-right?
I seem to recall the occasional kernel of corn in a pile of shit I came across. Did not make it any more pleasant.
That particular poster has been staying just on this side of the line for years. I don’t recall the last time I took any of post seriously, even the ones that may seemed reasonable. I always just figured they were stopped clock posts or the occasional slip from the trollfoonery
That poster does the “outrageous post”-“sorry, I guess I didn’t understand” thing all the time. Maybe he’s really deep in right-wing bullshit and occasionally lifts his head up to reality and really sees how wrong his sources are?
Maybe. And/or maybe we cut a lot of posters significant slack
There are some who strike me as not all that bright who occasionally do similar things out of ignorance. But not so consistently and regularly as the trocks
To be totally clear, there’s a fine line between a troll and an idiot who naively spouts the bullshit of other trolls and I’m not defending that poster.
Who? There’s really not reason not to spell output a name? The danger is t people searching the board for their names (because they’d just come straight here), it’s @'ing them. Don’t @ them, and it will be fine.
But of great help to those of us who don’t participate in all of these threads and who don’t have it in them to go read the threads just to decipher the secret code. I don’t mean to be all ILMVI about this, but clarity would be appreciated.
Yeah, I honestly have no idea who or what people are talking about.
Edited (good point on the thread linking. Not pointing to any particular post or user but still probably a good idea to avoid)
The Bud Light thread in IMHO, if you’re interested. Post ~238 or so
Linking the thread like that puts a link to this thread into that one. – though it appears to only show up in the OP post, where at this point in a long thread it may not be noticed, and where it doesn’t seem to point to anyone in particular other than maybe the OP.
So if I link to a post in another thread, the link to here attaches to the post in question. This is why it is strongly encouraged to avoid this.
I couldn’t parse out this clue, does anyone have more hints.
The poster’s handle is the geometrical name for an eight-sided polygon. They often post historical, mostly military, questions in FQ.
I was told there’d be no math.
Oh, I think English is not their first language, I recall something about them being in East Asia. They absolutely fall under the mostly harmless category at worst from my limited interactions with them.
Trouts are bad at math.
I agree. Never got any trollish vibe from them. Just a poster with a very narrow field of interest, at least here at this board. We’ve always had a few of those.
You can just write octagon.
octagon octagon octagon !!!
See?
ETA: Oh, and just in case you are afraid Bloody Mary rules apply…
octagon
You have to write it four more times, otherwise it’s just a square.
(blood-curdling scream)