# Yankees\_1996\_Champs: troll or dumbass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864 "2020-07-09T20:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/142 "2020-07-19T21:10:20Z")
Hey, I’ll stand by you and not call you a troll. But I will call you grossly misinformed about what Democrats think. And on what reality is. Also, you’re an ignorant racist. Hell I’m independent too. Which is to say I haven’t registered with any party. But I will be voting Democratic. But every. Single. One. Of your talking points, or “warnings”, are just so fucking inane and stupidly wrong and/or unsupported. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/143 "2020-07-19T21:34:47Z")
No, Yankee champ fan wrong about all things. Is not Yankee fan no way in any ways, is RC Lokomotiv Moscow fan (2005 champs gloriously). Is overplayed hands greatly to make us to believe Yankees bullshit. Polls is all agree Democratics have election sewed up in suitcase, but Vladimir still have tricksters up coat sleeves, which I say yet I am not a left wing. Is not to know until November. до свидания. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/144 "2020-07-19T22:23:27Z")
In Russia garbage bag have you! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/145 "2020-07-19T23:24:09Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > @Yankees_1996_Champs is not a professional troll. He’s a useful idiot doing this in his spare time. He’s a disenchanted Russian ex-pat who never quite got the hang of the English language, never stopped reading Russian controlled propaganda/media, misses the authoritarian style leadership of his former government and sympathizes with the Republican right-wing bigotry which is as familiar to him as Putin’s mother milk. > > In summary, he’s sad, pathetic, bigoted, dumb, angry and incapable of seeing the world around him in any other way than the way he’s been brainwashed to see it. That all sounds quite plausible to me. It is tough to believe that a professional operation would tolerate the degree of ineptitude we observe here. A learning curve is to be expected, but here we see more of an unchanging plateau. At the level of a highland-midge’s belly.\* In general, though, those who argue that there is NO WAY that paid-and-directed trolls would lower themselves to post on the SDMB are either not thinking it through, or are posting disingenuously for the purpose of being intentionally misleading. Of course paid trolls have to learn their trade somewhere. . . . \*fruits of my search for “Russia” and “insects”. Apparently they are plagued by them. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/146 "2020-07-20T00:34:30Z")
I made my statement about the SDMB and troll farms and I stand by it. If you wish to believe that the SDMB is training wheels for troll farms, more fucking power to you. But know, I think of your opinion the same as you think of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/147 "2020-07-20T00:40:17Z")
I’m not experienced with the modus operandi of Russian Trolls, but to the extent that they need to at least pretend to engage, it’s true that they have to learn somewhere, and this is the perfect place, as I have opined before. But to be fair, a lot of the low-level operators might just be posting a lot of links, copying and pasting pre-approved text, and liking/joining/following others to boost their social presence, skills which don’t require a lot of English skills. I just don’t know what the desired mixture is. But in my previous posts I’ve shown the calculations that it’s possible to troll the Dope and all other larger social media platforms with a very limited amount of resources. They just might not think it’s worth even that low level of investment. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/148 "2020-07-23T03:05:28Z")
[Well now he’s just being lazy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-republic-com/916066) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/149 "2020-07-23T03:26:37Z")
And it’s locked. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/150 "2020-07-23T03:40:30Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > And, it’s locked. Aww, and I was just about to show him how to search the SDMB archives to find out the answer to his question. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/151 "2020-07-23T04:47:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Yankees\_1996\_Champs](#): > > > > I am not a troll > > If you say so…but a bit of advice? If the topic ever comes up in conversation, you should say “The moose and the squirrel foiled my plot!”, not “Moose and squirrel foil plot!” How many times must I say it? Is only moose, squirrel is innocent. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/152 "2020-07-23T13:31:18Z")
> [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Is only moose, squirrel is innocent. Of course _you’d_ say that. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/153 "2020-07-23T13:39:32Z")
So lazy, in fact that his firsts link in the OP takes you to a UK online clothing retailer: [https://www.usc.co.uk/](https://www.usc.co.uk/) An interesting little bit of data about @Yankees_1996_Champs. I did notice him posting at somewhat peculiar hours for someone claiming some connection with the NE coast of the US. Notably large Russian community in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/154 "2020-07-23T23:29:32Z")
gregorio: “You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?” The last time I tried to help a turtle, it turned out to be a snapping turtle and nearly bit off my finger. Unlikely in the desert, but why take chances? Oh, and if Boomer Esiason was kneeling, it probably was because his knees were in too bad shape to hold him upright. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/155 "2020-07-27T22:54:04Z")
Should I care that I’m an ignorant racist shitbag? > [@Should a White man, let alone a White person care about Black Lives Matter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540): > > If they have no Black friends or acquaintances, live in a 85%-100% all white town, go to work with majority white people, they don’t care for the issue of criminal justice although criminal justice issues affect EVERY person in the world, not only America, they have White privilege but don’t know it or even care to know or to understand. Most white people I know that are the most dismissive or even snicker about BLM are white men. They laugh at it, snicker at it, or dismiss the issue. People s… ---
**Author:** ![DeadTreasSecretaries](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deadtreassecretaries/32/4817_2.png) [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864/156 "2020-07-27T23:17:12Z")
> [@Should a White man, let alone a White person care about Black Lives Matter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-a-white-man-let-alone-a-white-person-care-about-black-lives-matter/916540/11): > > I’m not talking about me. Shocker [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-1996-champs-troll-or-dumbass/914864.md?page=7)