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July 19, 2006
Question for Those Smarter Than I
I'm trolling through the internet, trying to find out things the lazy way. (Although I suppose the television is the laziest way; at least my fingers are moving.) There are sites where people post, where people have long discussions; one of whom is famous and hosting by a fabulous Greek who used to sleep with Al Franken. I saw it on the aforementioned "television" ten years ago.
This is my question: why would you post on a site where you know nobody will agree with you? Are people hankering that much for "conflict"? (And is it really conflict?) 'Cause they can go to Iraq or Lebanon, with their extra time.
And a follow-up: Do we lefties go to, I don't know, The Ann Coulter Crap-a-torium.com and do the same thing to them? Or do right-wingies just love conflict that much that the war in Iraq isn't enough for them?
Posted by emily at July 19, 2006 1:49 AM
Comments
Ah, if you had only spent more time on this series of "tubes", you'd know there is a creature out there that we call trolls.
Trolls don't have any sort of real beliefs or convitions. They certainly aren't interested in a real discussion. A television example would be, say, Bill O'Reilly.People w
Go to Slashdot, and you'll see the same sort of thing.
Whatever the issue is, someone will always have an irrational and unrealistic argument for it. The internet allows the anonymity to pose such arguments.
Posted by: kyle at July 23, 2006 12:41 AM