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Oneironaut

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20. TBH I think trolls are just angry and bored.

Reply to hibbing (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 28, 2017, 01:55 PM

Apr 2017

They get a kick out of posting vile garbage on the internet and getting angry responses. That's not to say that they don't believe what they're saying, but I think that they want to piss people off first and foremost.

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After getting vulgar comment online, PA's first openly gay state Congressman called troll's grandma. [View all] Amaryllis Apr 2017 OP

Grandamas' can be brutal. maveric Apr 2017 #1

I'll never get it hibbing Apr 2017 #2

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #5

This! LakeArenal Apr 2017 #9

This is so true..... LisaM Apr 2017 #13

He's a favorite of mine. Here's one about Donald J. Trump and another about politics: Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2017 #15

Goodness! The Prophet of Baltimore! LisaM Apr 2017 #18

TBH I think trolls are just angry and bored. Oneironaut Apr 2017 #20

That's amusing and a great way to handle that situation, but... Saviolo Apr 2017 #3

You are right, but for someone who doesn't have that same internal sense of humanity, Amaryllis Apr 2017 #6

BWAHAHAHA. So much for internet anonymity. lpbk2713 Apr 2017 #4

Go Granny, go!!! Hekate Apr 2017 #7

Yes shenmue Apr 2017 #11

I know!! LisaM Apr 2017 #12

Guy is much too handsome for politics. I'm just sayin'..n/t monmouth4 Apr 2017 #8

Can handsome guys not do politics? :) Amaryllis Apr 2017 #14

Sure they can, I'm just thinking with that face he's wasting his time in DC..n/t monmouth4 Apr 2017 #17

Have no fear....he'll ugly up with time. We all do! nt MADem Apr 2017 #16

Too funny! Lucky Luciano Apr 2017 #10

Excellent. But...this could easily have turned out differently. progressoid Apr 2017 #19