All the Pro-Putin Trolls Are Back

Something is about to go down.

Everything is going to be OK Mary

Is good? Now you have glass of best Russian vodka.

The worst "whataboutism" on DL happens in discussions about Islam.

Yes, because if YOU don't like something or agree with it, then it should be banned.

Russian sluts and whores

just to be clear....it goes like this: you criticize Islam and someone invariably says "but whatabout Christianity...."?

I guess that kind of "whataboutism" is ok.

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And the "Hello Boris!" trolls are a bore. It's as if dissenting opinions can't be tolerated... and healthy discussion should not be permitted.

It's just another form of bullying censorship.

I don't agree with you, R5! You must be Ivan ...right?

The fucksticks who have to take over every thread with their own personal trolling topic need to very literally die. Doesn't matter the topic, they're ready to shit all over it.

"Martha Stewart recipes for chicken are fine but the real problem is that babies are having their vaginas sewn shut by Hollywood stars who want to exterminate all gays. Also, Islam."

Christ you people.

[quote]And the "Hello Boris!" trolls are a bore. It's as if dissenting opinions can't be tolerated... and healthy discussion should not be permitted.

[quote]It's just another form of bullying censorship.

Hi Ludmilla.

R7, hi, Natasha!

"I go from thread to thread praising Trump and using the word 'H*llbot' all the time, and if you call me Boris in response, that's the same as violating my Constitutional rights!"

"The worst "whataboutism" on DL happens in discussions about Islam."

Awesome! A whataboutism about a whataboutism. So meta.

I *think* I've been seeing less of them. The Russian investigation threads have looked much more like real, somewhat thoughtful conversation these days. The trolls who do post are laughably obvious.

Russian troll awareness has its disadvantages - some of you sad bitches have started calling any person making a statement you disagree with a Russian troll, which is just sad.

Difficult as it is for DL's thought police to grasp, there are actually many Americans who do not regard Hillary Clinton as the second coming of Christ.

Because on the DL any comment about Mrs. Clinton that does not put her in the most flattering light possible is clearly the work of a Russian troll.

What's crazy is I suspect that if Bill or Chelsea were to post on DL they'd be called "Boris" because they actually offer some nuance.

[quote]Russian troll awareness has its disadvantages - some of you sad bitches have started calling any person making a statement you disagree with a Russian troll, which is just sad.

I was about to go off when I read this, and then I had to count to 10 and remind myself that some people have never been gaslighted and therefore wouldn't understand what's going on.

To elaborate, when the trolls realized everyone was on to them, they started gaslighting everyone by calling everyone a Russian troll or a Putin bot or a Commie or whatever. So now what's happening is that you have Americans who are calling the legit trolls out but the real Putin bots impersonating Americans and calling everyone else the Putin bots.

They're very big on fear mongering. Today, there's a focus on lettuce. The romaine lettuce recall is "terrifying" according to one poster. And the Fake Democrat Concern troll is busy on here as well.

OP Is that so? Is some shit coming down as R1 says? Or has discourse moved even further right and coarsened in the last year?

A lot of that is snark, r14. It's getting pretty tiresome to see people go on scolding sprees every time a joke about vodka and turnips gets posted -- it's not our fault you can't recognize a joke.

The Putie trolls at the troll farm in St. P'burg, fight to be assigned DL. Only the more senior ones get selected. It gives them a chance to check out gay porn & gossip. The Siberian lesbian ones not so much beyond the trans bashing, but have their preference sites. The Putie trolls have their favorites: Nunesex Gaetzy, JJ of Ohio, Paul, Mitch, and of course the ultimate favorite, Miss Lindzey. Trumpie & Pencie & Mother are a given.

It’s because Muriel had to delete all cookies over the last few days.

If they fail on Datalouge we banish them to frau site for discuss casserole recipes.

To me that's a good sign. It means they are desperate. Makes putting them on ignore even more satisfying for me.

I must have put ten of these brainwashed trolls on ignore yesterday (probably the same trolls I had on ignore before the cookies reset).

I just started over with my ignored tab when I lost my cookies, and it worked out well.

What do you want, OP? A medal? A pat on the head? Strangers to give a fuck?

Bitch, is you lost?

I've still got most of them on ignore. Whatever happened to DL didn't affect my shit.

[quote]And the "Hello Boris!" trolls are a bore. It's as if dissenting opinions can't be tolerated... and healthy discussion should not be permitted.

There are dissenting opinions, then there are trolls. Trolls often are the ones most upset by the "ignore" feature.

Why are you idiots still so obsessed with Hillary Clinton r15? I thought you had moved on to David Hogg.

It's because there's no longer any visit requirement to post: you can post on your first visit. For some reason, Muriel's response to all the trolling was to make it easier for them to post (?)

[quote]Difficult as it is for DL's thought police to grasp, there are actually many Americans who do not regard Hillary Clinton as the second coming of Christ.

Because recognizing Russia's obvious ratfucking in American political discourse is just like worshipping HRC like a deity?

Logic's not your strong point, is it hun?

[quote]Because recognizing Russia's obvious ratfucking in American political discourse----

Oh those Russian trolls... using social media (on the world-wide-web) to push their agenda.

The nerve of them, the horror...oh the surprise!

Yours either R31

And don't call other men "hun" -- it's creepy and demeans you.

But to put it in terms you can understand, not every poster who has something less than glowing to say about Her is a Russian troll.

So a lot of false positives on the "trolls". (I suspect you'll understand that one.)

No Dem wants to yammer about Clinton a year and a half later, R32. Who does that leave you with, especially when it comes to frivolous Hillary bashing threads meant to demean her?

I meant R33, but R32 is probably who I'm talking about.

Of course they do R34. The "yammering" came up because a significant new book was published that sheds more light on the campaign and that book has been getting a lot of coverage the past few days.

I've included a link in case you're interested.

And R34 this is a really good interview/TL;DR summary of the book from New York magazine

The DL whataboutisms happen in Islam discussions because when someone writes a nonsensical broad-brush statement against Islam, he implies “that would never be done by Christians as we are so superior.”

Today, they are bumping old threads and including their email address. Don't email them! They're trying to dox people that respond to them.

What I want know is . Is everyone who dislikes Clinton and Islam Russian Trolls or Alt Right or bigots? If they are , in your mind, then the Democrats are truly screwed and we won’t have another Democrat as President for years.

R40 Funny, when I criticize Catholicism (and I do, rather harshly) no one calls me a "catholiphobe. Or a bigot.

I wonder why?

Uh huh. It's just a joke folks!

I can't see them R39 because I've blocked all of them but seriously? They are trying to get people to email them? What threads are these?

Not even when I get spitroasted by Ashton Summers and Blake Mitchell would I think it's a genius idea to get in contact with someone who posts his email address on Datalounge. Especially in political threads. I mean, really! Common sense doesn't shut down when you visit DL.

[quote]But to put it in terms you can understand, not every poster who has something less than glowing to say about Her is a Russian troll.

But we're not talking about blanket criticism of HRC, hon. We're talking about Russian trolls, endlessly churning out a very special form of disinformation.

You've made it quite clear that you're just a garden-variety asshole. We get that.

Midterms are coming and so lots of primaries. Russia will continue to stir the shit cuz that's what Russia does.

Clinton wasn't a saint but she, unlike Bernie, Stein and trump wasn't named in Mueller's indictments as a beneficiary of aid from a hostile government during the election. This point does seem to be overlooked.

r16 That kind of pure thought loop is how James Angleton ended up on the lawn at Langley, drunk and teetering past several journalists as he exited his career.

The trolls have done this to themselves. Because of the last go around, anything can be suspect. Therefore all is suspect.

r48 We have done this by allowing the trolls and not taking responsibility for our own online lives. Most Americans did not even realize they were in the middle of a new Cold War until the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story broke, after it was much too late. If more of them had educated themselves about Russian/American relations maybe they would've been more skeptical earlier during the election. Then again, that would require them to be inconvenienced and do something, and no one wants to do the dirty work.

Zuckerberg is an Aspie dick, but he had a point.

Poof, gone again.

Yep r50, we are back to only paying members allowed to post.

Yes, Muriel did another clean sweep.

I hope this gets rid of the Fake Concern Trolls as well as the equally dangerous Concern Troll Defenders: "Not everyone who is worried is a Troll! Censorship!!!!!"

When they post shitty threads like this, it's pretty obvious they are here and yes, Virginia, they do get triggered when you make fun of them because they can't take a joke or criticism!

R40:

[quote]What I want know is . Is everyone who dislikes Clinton and Islam Russian Trolls or Alt Right or bigots? If they are , in your mind, then the Democrats are truly screwed and we won’t have another Democrat as President for years.

Apart from your punctuation, you seem to have a mistaken impression that reasoned and intelligent posting with opinions that may be in the minority here or in sensible forums (Please don't make me develop an argument that the DL is a "sensible forum.") automatically are considered Russbots or lunatics. That's a shameful generality. While some unreasonable people may jump on such posts, that's not a sign of what "Democrats" think.

What we see here is the more outrageous, stupid, nasty, craven and clearly dishonest crap that shoves racist, homophobic, sexist (including anti-male), anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-reason, anti-science, anti-empirical political garbage at us.

And at this point, perhaps unreasonably, I can say that anyone - anyone - defending Donald Trump plainly is a cretin or a shit-stirring enemy of this country. There is plenty of room in the USA for all kinds of opinions. There is no room for fascist cant and the propaganda that it proliferates by. We can tell the difference.

Can you, you little innocent just-asking-a-question troll you? Or has the propaganda worked with you and you really think that Democrats are, like the GOP, hate-spewing fanatics filling their pockets with loot while denying blatant obstruction of justice, climate change, Russian influence and other truths.

You're staying with me tonight, r54.

R54, don't be a stranger around here!

Some of these posts may indeed be from Russians, but I suspect a large number of them are from a certain hyper-posting instigator who loves to troll on here.

I've been called a troll and I'm not. I did stay at a Holiday Inn. Can I sell you a bridge?

^It is Holiday Inn Express.

Muriel could settle this very simply. The GOP has made it clear that they are running on Hillary Clinton hate to fire-up the stupid, racist misogynist base. The tax bill is a bust, there is no wall, no infrastructure, no muslim ban - so all the white Nationalist plans for the GOP tanked. All they have left is taunting and name calling by bots.

Every single anti Clinton thread should be immediately removed by Muriel. That is what a responsible social media group would do - not feed the Trolls, eliminate Fake News.

Think about it Muriel - Trump has already removed every single mention of LGBTQ issues from all .GOV websites. This is the least you can do.