# We have a russian troll, name of Barack **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734 "2019-06-19T04:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/1 "2019-06-19T04:14:16Z")
Yes, our poster named after our recent president is a Russian Troll, imho. Look at his thread: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=877270](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=877270) In this thread (and others0) he purports to be supporting Bernie Sanders, while actually driving people away from Sanders, in fact, generating much hate and dislike for Bernie. While doing so, he also attacks Biden and a few other democrats. But not Trump. Lines like _"You will vote for Bernie Sanders and you will like it._ and then in reply to **Jophiel** who said: _“Man, I hope you didn’t think that was going to make anyone more inclined to vote for Sanders.”_ His reply "_No not at all my intention. "_ and this reply: **Barack Obama** _"Haha you got me, I guessed I expected more substance than speculation from dopers. Might just be the group I reeled in with my post._" is a clear admission of trolling. and his history: “Why did we free the slaves?”= trolling. _How Did The NSA Plant Malware In Dams, Hospitals, and Power Grids?_ During the 2016 elections:_Why isn’t Hillary clinton in jail?_ And this attack on the real President Obama:" \*Obama vetos 9/11 bill for relations, yet carpet bombs the middle east out of revenge? Support our allies, maintain sovereignty, be damn with your excuses. He’s a populist, corporatist, blue dog piece of walking excrement. \* And so forth. Ladies and Gentledopers: we should be proud in a way. The Kremlin actually thought enough of the SDMB to plant a Troll among us. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/2 "2019-06-19T04:16:54Z")
I’d be more inclined to think he were a Russian troll if he switched his name to Hillary Clinton. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/3 "2019-06-19T04:44:39Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I’d be more inclined to think he were a Russian troll if he switched his name to Hillary Clinton. 😃 Snerk. :p:D ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/4 "2019-06-19T09:27:52Z")
Definitely a troll. I hadn’t considered the Russian angle until you included the thread about infrastructure. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/5 "2019-06-19T10:57:41Z")
I’m thinking stoner, not Russian. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/6 "2019-06-19T11:15:18Z")
So he didn’t say “Glass Seagull” ironically? Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/7 "2019-06-19T11:56:16Z")
I think he’s just not very bright. Take a look at the string of poorly-thought-out OPs he’s dumped in GD over the past year or two. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/8 "2019-06-19T14:05:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > So he didn’t say “Glass Seagull” ironically? Hmm. Glass Seagull is the name of my band formed to teach kids about economics. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/9 "2019-06-19T15:39:56Z")
_Russian Troll_ (Netflix Original Series) Tragicomedy about a faceless 400-pound Slav sitting on a bed in Pavlovsk who finds himself caught in a mysterious time loop, causing the members of an online discussion forum to repeatedly encounter the same sock each time he is banned and immediately reborn. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/10 "2019-06-19T16:37:03Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Glass Seagull is the name of my band formed to teach kids about economics. I bet they ran so far away from that concert. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/11 "2019-06-19T16:39:06Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > _Russian Troll_ (Netflix Original Series) > > Tragicomedy about a faceless 400-pound Slav sitting on a bed in Pavlovsk who finds himself caught in a mysterious time loop, causing the members of an online discussion forum to repeatedly encounter the same sock each time he is banned and immediately reborn. Snerk.:p:D ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/12 "2019-06-19T16:48:30Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I bet they ran so far away from that concert. When they heard the band name they were like “what the flock?” ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/13 "2019-06-19T20:17:05Z")
No, that’s the other Seagull band. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/14 "2019-06-19T21:23:24Z")
Uncle Vanya, in the cherry orchard, with a samovar! ---
**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:** [June 19, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/15 "2019-06-19T22:36:22Z")
I dunno if he’s Russian - in fact, that may be giving him too much credit. But definitely trolling. The name was the first clue, really. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/16 "2019-06-19T23:14:09Z")
Wow, exactly one out of four posts is a new thread. Talk about hit and run. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/17 "2019-06-19T23:46:21Z")
For God’s sake, the Russians do not give one single solitary shit about the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/18 "2019-06-19T23:49:42Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > For God’s sake, the Russians do not give one single solitary shit about the SDMB. Neither do the proselytizers, but they wander through here now and again after being directed to here from another site. Professional trolls are just trained to stick around in places they find an audience, rather than just dropping their loads of inspiration and moving on immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/19 "2019-06-19T23:56:44Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > For God’s sake, the Russians do not give one single solitary shit about the SDMB. > [@begbert2](#): > > Neither do the proselytizers, but they wander through here now and again after being directed to here from another site. > > Professional trolls are just trained to stick around in places they find an audience, rather than just dropping their loads of inspiration and moving on immediately. An audience is important to the art of learning how to troll. And even Russians have to learn—they’re not born knowing how! It’s certainly true that ‘influencing SDMB users’ is not a goal of IRA operations, but ‘influencing American and world opinion’ definitely _is_. And you don’t learn how to influence opinion via sites on which you have few or no interactions of any length (such as Twitter or Facebook). You come to a place where you can get into some in-depth back-and-forth, over a period of days or longer. A medium-sized message board is ideal for that purpose. (Personally there are one or two accounts I’d think more likely than that of “Barack” to be written by people whose paychecks come ultimately from the Kremlin. But, who knows?) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734/20 "2019-06-20T00:27:33Z")
The style of posting on the SDMB is so different from the style on social media, it would be useless to use it as a trading ground. It would be like taking swimming lessons to train for mountain climbing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-russian-troll-name-of-barack/835734.md?page=2)