I have long pondered the motivation of bloggers. In my understanding, you blog, comment, et cetera because you are searching out like-minded individuals. For me, like-minded means progressive, highly intelligent, incredibly attractive people who are thoroughly fed up with the incessant tripe being fed to us by the WingNuts and MSM.
You comment in order to exchange opinions, clarify issues, ask questions, and express your own viewpoint. It is mind-boggling to think that trolls are actually expressing their own view point when the say things like:
Bill Clinton belogned to an all white member golf club. Did you know that. Bill Clinton supposedly the first black president belogned to an all white member golf club. LOL.
The writer has no concept of grammar or spelling, lacks a relevant point, and doesn't seem to express any viewpoint.
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I suppose the motivation is to make Bill Clinton appear to be a racist, in order to help Obama? However, I really think that most people who think the Clintons have run a racist campaign have already been convinced of it and need no further proof. See: Jesse Jackson, "As Far As I Know", Drug Dealer, etc.
Here are some more of my favorite examples of troll:
Note: A lot of the sites do not allow direct linking to comments, so I linked to the story instead.
From ABC News:
Obama has done NOTHING in his state senate career and NOTHING in the US senate. The only bill he's had passes was a simple thing that was handed to him so real senators could focus on important matters. The bill was about relief to the Congo.
As far as the state senate career, Obama has conveniently 'lost' all his documentation. Sure! \
Some people will believe anything and ignore everything
This is just false. Every statement is a lie and completely fabricated. How can you believe this? Does anyone really believe this? Why would you post this over and over again? Do you think you are going to convince anyone?
From Politico:
"Obama Hid His Father's Socialist and Anti-Western Convictions From His Readers."
I think "Obama BinLadin" has been hiding his own socialist and anti-Western convictions during this campaign.
But all of these skeletons will come tumbling out before the November General Election, make no mistake about it.
If I had to guess, I would say this person is a Hillary supporter due to the elecability argument at the end. However, were that omitted my first question would be: Is this person being paid by the RNC?
From CNN's Political Ticker, on Cindy McCain:
NEITHER BILL CLINTON NOR MICHELLE OBAMA CAN COOK UP A DISH FROM THEIR OWN RECIPES. MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD BE
DISHING OUT RECIPES STRAIGHT FROM HER SOUTH CAROLINA
SPEECHES ON MEAN AMERICA. BILL CLINTON MEANWHILE
WOULD BE CAMPAIGNING THE SAME OLD WAY TRIPPING EVERYWHERE AND HILLARY COMING TO THE RESCUE.
CINDY MCCAIN WOULD MAKE THE BEST RECIPE AND EVEN COOK IT HERSELF.
hahahaha, she'll really cook it herself? I think I might consider voting for McCain if Cindy comes to my house and cooks dinner. If she doesn't, I'll go with my gut and not vote for the guy who wants to cut taxes for rich people and gas companies, but who thinks poor people need to get a job.
I'm not even going to bother to post the insanely long ones that no one reads because they are 3000 words long with little spacing and no structure. Some of them are quite funny, but I'm not going to bother because I know y'all won't read them. Why would someone else think you would? Hubris?
These questions have been bothering me for a long time now, and I still just don't understand what motivates a troll.