XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.apps   
   From: REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com   
      
   Alan  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   According to some people in this group, a troll is someone you disagree   
   with. That would mean they are trolls for disagreeing as well.   
      
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