Progressives (Liberals)

Troll. noun. An idiotic person who doesn't agree with you and has the audacity to say so.

I am labeling an individual as a troll

I'll grant george one point here - in my recommendation that members actively disregard certain voices, I'm doing something a bit different than merely making a critique of something said.

Isn't the constant approval of the small circle of rather slavish claques who attend your posts sufficient?

60 isn’t low enough.

Ryan Grim
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On the Medicare at 60 plan: After the 2008 crisis a ton of people 50 and over were unable to ever effectively get back into the workforce in the way they were before due to age discrimination. That’s likely to happen again, and they’ll need health care. 60 isn’t low enough.

I remember a time when this account was more than a twitterbot.

In Internet slang, a troll is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.
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Application of the term troll is subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.

...smear the Democratic Party and try to convince others to vote elsewhere. That's always been her game

Application of the term troll is subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation.

An ad hominem attack made by people who are so shallow and insecure that they can’t tolerate different opinions.

You can’t bear that someone has the right to disagree.

I laugh at you. Are you gonna cry now? Smh.

"Everyone who disagrees with me is intolerant" — that's just a self-serving formula often employed by shallow and insecure people....

That's your subjective response. "Everyone who disagrees with me is intolerant" — that's just a self-serving formula often employed by shallow and insecure people who find themselves in situations where their ideas are rejected and where they have no persuasive effect. "I'm right; the world's wrong."