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It was the Speaker of the House, Ron Livingston - get your damn history right
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In real life, politicans or potential politicians are sometimes driven off by trolls, forced to resign by criticism of their ethics or habits or personal motivations or prior behaviour or secrets or even just lying about something or changing their mind so much no one can trust them. This is just a part of the ordinary [[politics as usual]] which applies whenever [[due process]] and some fixed [[power structure]] just can't resolve an issue, or shouldn't try to... | In real life, politicans or potential politicians are sometimes driven off by trolls, forced to resign by criticism of their ethics or habits or personal motivations or prior behaviour or secrets or even just lying about something or changing their mind so much no one can trust them. This is just a part of the ordinary [[politics as usual]] which applies whenever [[due process]] and some fixed [[power structure]] just can't resolve an issue, or shouldn't try to... | ||
Many politicians explain when they quit politics that they "can't take the heat" or "didn't want to expose my family to that" meaning troll activities. The trolls of course take this as a sign of success. The most notable troll of this kind is [[Larry Flynt]] who offered a million US dollars to anyone who could tell a sexual misbehaviour story about a Republican Senator or Congressman during the Clinton sex scandal. This offer produced many stories and actually forced the incoming | Many politicians explain when they quit politics that they "can't take the heat" or "didn't want to expose my family to that" meaning troll activities. The trolls of course take this as a sign of success. The most notable troll of this kind is [[Larry Flynt]] who offered a million US dollars to anyone who could tell a sexual misbehaviour story about a Republican Senator or Congressman during the Clinton sex scandal. This offer produced many stories and actually forced the incoming Speaker of the House, Ron Livingston, to resign. So trolls in the real world do most certainly affect politics and drive off hypocrites! | ||
This seems to be a good thing to some, while others, calling it "government by Larry Flynt", objected to one person having such power over political choices. But in fact, he achieved his objective by purely legal and social means and with no [[libel]] or use of any special power, other than money, which of course many supporters of Republicans also had. So he did not use any power allocated to him by any leader or technology, but by the economy itself, which may or may not be a technology. If it's a technology, then Larry's a [[sysop]], if not, he's a [[troll]], either way, see [[m:troll]] for definition. | This seems to be a good thing to some, while others, calling it "government by Larry Flynt", objected to one person having such power over political choices. But in fact, he achieved his objective by purely legal and social means and with no [[libel]] or use of any special power, other than money, which of course many supporters of Republicans also had. So he did not use any power allocated to him by any leader or technology, but by the economy itself, which may or may not be a technology. If it's a technology, then Larry's a [[sysop]], if not, he's a [[troll]], either way, see [[m:troll]] for definition. | ||