[Vision2020] Tips for Trolls

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Jones -

Since when is Joan Opyr hypocritical for condemning those who lack
sufficient responsibility and maturity to sign postings with their real
names?  Joan has never hidden behind a fictional name while posting to this
listserve.

Or is this your attempt at creating an aura of guilt around Ms. Opyr simply
because you feel that she fits so easily into that same cupboard which you
continue to place so many of us, the one labeled "Liberal"?  

Yes.  There are a number of subscribers in that cupboard that have posted
anonymously.  For you to paint everybody within that cupboard with such a
broad brush that does not distinguish one person from another reflects a
lack of integrity and an abundance of irresponsibility.  

Perhaps you should attend a finishing school and quit your job as bartender
for the Betty Ford Clinic.  Trust me.  You will be glad you did and the
community will be that much richer for it.

Until then . . .

Take care, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

 “Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'”

-----Original Message-----

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Ed Jones
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:19 AM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tips for Trolls

So much for the liberal view of an open and inclusive society. What a
hypocrite. 

Off to the reeducation camp for you, Citizen Opyr.

Ed Jones


----- Original Message -----
From: "joanopyr at earthlink.net" <joanopyr at earthlink.net>
To: "Vision2020 Moscow" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Tips for Trolls
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:42:09 -0700

> 
> Donald TooGood complains (from behind his mother's apron of 
> anonymity) that that I talk down to people, that I'm cruel and 
> nasty, and that I have no business (NO BUSINESS!) calling him 
> names.  He also claims that he's received an untold but deeply 
> impressive number of private emails from Vision 2020 lurkers 
> advising him that I kick kittens for fun, snub the poor, pour salt 
> on slugs, and am just plain wicked, gawd-awful, and a great big 
> meanie.
> 
> Who cares?
> 
> I've heard the "secret fanclub" argument before, Donaldo.  It is 
> the last refuge of the pathetic scoundrel.  There are more than 700 
> people on this list.  If 10 of them have sent you private notes 
> warning you that I'll rip off your head and yell down your neck, 
> are they really telling you anything that you don't already know?  
> I've been on this list for years, and there's always been a Donald 
> TooGood, or someone just like him, just as there's always been a 
> "New Man."  Vision 2020 has always had at least one or more 
> chickenshit provocateurs in residence.  We slap them down, we 
> ignore them, and sooner or later, they go away.  Someone else will 
> take Donald TooGood's place, but it doesn't really matter.  We 
> survived Edna Wilmington; we survived Faul Ottomaticks and Stimatta 
> X, and we will survive you, Mr. TooGood.  In comparison to Edna, 
> Faul, and Stigmatta, you and New Man are really rather 
> piddly-squat.  You're going to have to ramp it up a bit if you want 
> to really be B-A-D.
> 
> Because it seems to upset you so much, I'll say this one final 
> time: you are a troll.  You don't want to participate in a 
> community discussion.  Unlike Pat Kraut -- with whom I almost never 
> agree -- you're not willing to step up to the plate and identify 
> yourself.  You're not willing to raise your head above the parapet 
> and take a public risk.  Pat is willing to take that risk, and so 
> she's a real part of this list; she contributes.  You don't.  You 
> just make belligerant, anonymous observations and then sit back and 
> watch the brown hit the fan.  You are fat and sassy and perfectly 
> safe.  No one need fear you; but then, no one need heed you, 
> either.  'Ere long, you'll get bored with us and go back to kicking 
> cyber-booty on your X-Box.
> 
> Mortal Kombat, anyone?
> 
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> www.auntie-establishment.com
> 

>
> 
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