That is an interesting problem. I troll occasionally (perhaps more than occasionally) and I don't often think about the consequences or reasons why. There is a kind of thrill to it, even when I know it alienates people and gives them the wrong impression of my true opinions/feelings.
In fact, perhaps there's a kind of thrill to it because I know it alienates people and gives them the wrong impression of my true opinions and feelings. Perhaps.
It's even more insidious when the troll in question has taken up residence in a community, and interacts half-normally, part of the time, but then resorts to maddening flame-baiting the majority of the time.
Of course, I may not be correctly assessing my own character and behavior. I have it from numerous sources that I skew my interpretations heavily towards the negative. I've tried hard to dismiss such reports, but outside observers have cited data and made arguments I haven't been able to deny. Objectively I must admit that I'm not as bad as I'd pefer to think.
Not every sentence. Besides, I prefer "fascist." "Leftist" is usually being leveled at me, or the occasional suggestion I join Al Qaeda.
But most of the time I just say things like, "The ones who mutilate bodies on camera, stone women to death and blow up funerals and cafes are the Bad Guys, and the ones who torture and humiliate people not proven to have comitted any crime, rape girls and murder their families are the Good Guys."
In fact, perhaps there's a kind of thrill to it because I know it alienates people and gives them the wrong impression of my true opinions and feelings. Perhaps.
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But most of the time I just say things like, "The ones who mutilate bodies on camera, stone women to death and blow up funerals and cafes are the Bad Guys, and the ones who torture and humiliate people not proven to have comitted any crime, rape girls and murder their families are the Good Guys."
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