XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.apps   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-07-16 13:43, Alan Browne wrote:   
   > On 2023-07-16 16:27, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2023-07-16 11:41, Alan Browne wrote:   
   >>> On 2023-07-16 13:03, Wilf wrote:   
   >>>> really obsess over this Arlen character.  As if he's the Anti-Christ   
   >>>> or something.    Or the sort of mythical hate figure needed to   
   >>>> control the masses which Goldstein was set up to be in the book   
   >>>> Nineteen Eighty-Four.   
   >>>   
   >>> You're quite right - we should absolutely ignore it, but we seem to   
   >>> be weak.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Ignoring it has never ever worked as a strategy.   
   >   
   > It's actually the most successful way of dealing with trolls.  However   
   > as soon as 1 person answers it, it gets oxygen to keep on going.   
   >   
      
   But that's a flaw you can NEVER eliminate.   
      
   There will always be new people who come in and provide the oxygen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)