Troll Wrestling Federation

[Tom Sawyer]

This is the thread for no holds barred, fight to the death, texas chainsaw, tag team, cage match. The TWF...

So trolls of all stripes have a place to workout their pent up aggressions.

I'll start the thread with the first round of the match by asking the warmongers the question....
If war is the answer, why the hell are you sitting on your asses typing your machismo on the forum? The military recruiters are desperate for cannon fodder. Prove your manhood and your aggressive theories in actual practice... go sign up.

[Kat Kanning]

Bravo.  It's like the liberals who want all these programs for the poor and the kids but want someone else to pay for it.

Karma for Roger.

[FrankChodorov]

yeah - you tell 'em Roger!

[Ear]

I will personally give a free American flag bookmark to the first 1,000 warmongering trolls named Objectivist to sign up for military duty.  Hurry, recruiters are standing by!

[Tom Sawyer]

 

My experience is the tough talkers are the ones that turned out to be bed-wetters in bootcamp.

[FrankChodorov]

My experience is the tough talkers are the ones that turned out to be bed-wetters in bootcamp.

semper fidelis!

[Jason Rand]

I don't think he's a troll.  But I don't agree with his version of Objectivism.

[aries]

I don't think he's a troll.  But I don't agree with his version of Objectivism.

Jason, I was trying to get on Second Life tonight but I had problems getting connected. I remembered that there was an event but I couldn't get on. Sorry.

[SeanSchade]

My experience is the tough talkers are the ones that turned out to be bed-wetters in bootcamp.

Roger, I believe you'll find that most who have previously served in the military have a respect for the dangers of war while those who haven't say they're quick to pull the trigger.

Talkers will talk...

[Kevin Bean]

blah blah blah blah blah.  Blah blah blah blah, blah, blah blah blah; blah, blah, blah blah blah blah!!!!!  On the other hand, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.  Blah blah - blah blah blah blah blah blah.  Economic rent.

[KBCraig]

blah blah blah blah blah.

Dr. Grennon, I presume?

Bill Grennon, MD. 

[Tom Sawyer]

Bill, you are finally getting through to me. I don't know, but your latest posts and the fact you have begun operating under your real name... well I am ready to drink the Georgist Kool-aid.

Let's take over this group of selfish people... Economic Rent for One Economic Rent for All.

PS Did anyone ever tell you that you look just like Bruce Willis?

[mvpel]

Roger,

A sincerely held, candidly expressed intellectual or philosophical disagreement is not "trolling," it is the stuff from which online forums are built.

To characterize it as "trolling," is to reveal your misunderstanding of the meaning of the term, which is derived not from the name for under-bridge dwelling creatures, but rather "trailing bait behind a slow-moving boat waiting for eager fish to snap at it."  In the online world, it's "Posting derogatory messages about sensitive subjects on newsgroups and chat rooms to bait users into responding."

I've been using online fora since 1984, so trust me, I know what trolling is, and saying that the liberation of the brutally oppressed Iraqi people was a Good Thing is not it.

Why are you so bent on enforcing intellectual conformity here by stooping to infantile name-calling?

[Caleb]

I've been using online fora since 1984, so trust me, I know what trolling is, and saying that the liberation of the brutally oppressed Iraqi people was a Good Thing is not it.

What about the brutally oppressed Saudi people?  Can't remove the royal family, though, those are Bush's buddies.  Bandar Bush. 

What about the brutally oppressed American people?  Oh I forgot, "It's not tyranny if we're doing it for your security."  Homer Simpson would be pleased.

If the Iraqi people are better off, now, they should be happy we're there.  Instead, they're fighting the troops daily.  Something is fishy about your logic.

America does not have the money, resources, or moral imperative to police the world.

[mvpel]

You don't even have the foggiest idea what real "oppression" is, do you?

The Kurds sure are happy we're there - see http://www.theotheriraq.com/ - they no longer have to fear chemical genocide at the hands of Saddam's Ba'thist thugs.

You sure do use a broad brush, don't you, characterizing the Iraqi opponents as representative of the 26 million Iraqi people, when they're more likely to be representative of the deposed thugocracy; or of an aspiring thugocracy; or of Syrian, Iranian, and Saudi Muslim fundamentalists thirsting for a chance to kill infidels or die trying.

You seem to enjoy trotting out "First they came for the Jews..." in ominous tones whenever the US does anything, but what about "First they came for the Kurds?"



Here's another quote for you - "If not the US, who?  If not now, when?" - after 900,000 (more) are hacked to death like they were in Rwanda while the UN and the Clinton Administration wrung their hankies?  After 10 million were slaughtered while FDR stalled and delayed and implemented half-measures in 1944, five years after sending refugees abord the SS St. Louis back to their deaths in the inferno of Nazi Europe?  When?