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Originally Posted by samsonh
I hope broadway and bee and wil and mon are trolls, if so they are great entertainment. If not, a sad representation of our education policy.
Edit to add they I don't think there is any chance they aren't trolls. Except for wil. I think he is real.
Ok, so, there's this concept that I've been trying to find a good name for, for like 10 years now. For awhile I called it 'triple trolling' but that's not really descriptive or intuitive.
Anyhow, the concept goes like this: A poster expresses their real views and those views are rightfully derided. The poster is savvy enough to know this, and in their heart of hearts ~all right-wingers want to be respected by left-wingers, so they do some slight yet obvious trolling with the intention of having those troll views
and the original views not taken seriously (i.e. 'he's just trolling') with the hopes that people will ascribe a less ridiculous set of 'real' views to them. It's sort of the complex cousin of 'I was just joking'. On a number line it would look like: The original derp is a 6, they take it up to a trollish 8.5, and people assume the real views are around a 3-4.
Wilch does this is a slight amount, I suspect. Monistat does it
a lot, hence all the recent work, assuming people won't remember he originally came in here absolutely furious about the football player kneeling and brown Muslims, like, existing.
I'm not sure if BroadwaySucky does it. From what I've gleaned he used to be a longhair who apparently dropped a bunch of LSD and that made him a deplorable bigot. Like, maybe his dealer was all out of regular LSD and said, hey man, I only have the Racist LSD, and BS thought, what's the worst that could happen? Then he comes down from his trip and went from Getting The Lead Out with The Zep to the pitiful creature we see before us.