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:We only expect them to blow their stacks when they find themselves subject to their own [[trolling tactic]]s - and look!
:We only expect them to blow their stacks when they find themselves subject to their own [[trolling tactic]]s - and look!
::Look?  Where?  This is fun.


It's actually impossible to tell what you think any of these people you hate, actually specifically did.   
It's actually impossible to tell what you think any of these people you hate, actually specifically did.   


:Who said anything about hatred? Are you claiming that all [[trolls]] ''hate'' the targets of their [[trolling]]?  
:Who said anything about hatred? Are you claiming that all [[trolls]] ''hate'' the targets of their [[trolling]]?  
::No, but those who try to engage in [[outing]] no matter how pathetic or inaccurate are betraying a need to drag a [[body]] into a situation where it was not previously involved.  Hate is the main motive for that sort of thing.  It's just not what [[trolls]] do, that is, that particular element is not an aspect of [[trolling]], but rather, of [[power grab]]s undertaken by sysops.


One is forced to conclude that you just don't know, you just know that they are safe targets for you to direct your [[w:self-hatred]] outwards against.  Not to do [[amateur psychiatry]], but, why not?
One is forced to conclude that you just don't know, you just know that they are safe targets for you to direct your [[w:self-hatred]] outwards against.  Not to do [[amateur psychiatry]], but, why not?


:If you must engage in [[amateur psychiatry]], do try to make your diagnoses have ''some'' relation to reality - don't fall into the trap of the [[Wikimedia|Witchimedian]]s by making up this kind of nonsense.
:If you must engage in [[amateur psychiatry]], do try to make your diagnoses have ''some'' relation to reality - don't fall into the trap of the [[Wikimedia|Witchimedian]]s by making up this kind of nonsense.
::There is little "reality" in your discourse, it seems to lack referents.  Your [[faction]] is unclear, as is your [[wiki mission|mission]].  Perhaps you lack direction in your life in general?  Let us introduce you to trolling as a [[w:personality cult|lifestyle that will focus you on what is truly important]].


You and your friends do plenty of that, right?   
You and your friends do plenty of that, right?   


:My fellow [[trolls]] do, at least.
:My fellow [[trolls]] do, at least.
::Fair, a [[sysop]] is the lowest form [[trolls]] take - only when they abandon the [[technological escalation]] of the [[IP block]] can they actually become fully developed [[trolls]].


That's how you justify your [[sysop vandalism]].
That's how you justify your [[sysop vandalism]].


:[[Trolls]] have helpfully provided us with [[Alleged and collective identity|a response]] seemingly designed exactly for this attempt to associate us with the wicked [[sysop power structure]]:
:[[Trolls]] have helpfully provided us with [[Alleged and collective identity|a response]] seemingly designed exactly for this attempt to associate us with the wicked [[sysop power structure]]:
::It requires no particular [[command hierarchy]] to have a [[Sysop Vandal point of view]].  Some people are raised by parents who beat them or rape them, and such people will in general tend to believe "might makes right" in later life - pardon the psychiatry.  But that is not to say that this describes YOU.


*''do not claim that others are all funded by some group or part of some party if they have not said so themselves''
*''do not claim that others are all funded by some group or part of some party if they have not said so themselves''


:but they fling so many [[troll droppings]] that they can be forgiven for not remembering all of them.
:but they fling so many [[troll droppings]] that they can be forgiven for not remembering all of them.
::Fair enough.  One troll's droppings are another troll's gems.  That's what makes for [[politics as usual]].
::For instance, if we were all [[w:authoritarianism|authoritarians]] then we would be able to identify one source of "truth" about [[alleged and collective identity]] and all that.  But [[anti-authoritarianism in practice]] means some acceptance of ambiguity, uncertainty, and the good humour of [[political virtues]].
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