Notes on the odd phenomenon of right wing trollery.

[byronius]

They love us. They love us SO MUCH.

Behind every one of these giddy giggling murderous freak's faces is a brain with a better person somewhere inside of it. Usually it's the left brain persona, because the right side tends toward hysteria, therefore the Psychopathic God that was Adolf Hitler. These better voices -- they generally know the truth about matters, but are helpless against the dominance of whatever demon it is that is in the driver's seat.

It is this buried American cultural moral compass that I am concerned with; it is generally childlike, a sort of stunted fetal liberal, held in stasis because it has never been allowed to breathe, but I think it is utterly attracted to the liberal world, and influences the dominant monster in whatever way it can.

I can't go the Breitbart. I don't want to hack Free Republic. I have never clicked on Drudge. It's fucking gross. Like some weird 1732 bad Mongolian beer dream with machines in it. Ewwwwwwwww.

I've never been interested in interfering with right-wingers except in person, with my voice. But the idea of monitoring their sites and hopping on to Facebook to cheer a hack, or to plan ways to silence them in some fashion, or to investigate and track their private lives somehow -- seems like a lot of ugly, gross, thankless work. Like mucking out a septic tank or something. Fuck. Maybe if somebody paid me.

And yeah, some of them are paid. But the others -- leaning over their keyboards with pounding hearts and gleaming eyes, using every skill they've ever learned to fuck with fellow Americans and enjoying it -- and I think only the absolutely sexual thrill that comes from violating social norms, from the destruction of something they perceive as good and honorable, can explain the serious attention they pay to us.

It's a one-way street. And I don't know how that's relevant to surviving the shit hurricane coming our way except to say I think many of them are aware that they've just committed what may be the most violent act in human history -- a vote for medievalism in a highly technological age in the most advanced nation that has ever existed.

That's what makes them so giddy. The thrill of being bad. The secret knowledge that they've damaged the chances for the survival of their species. And the love they show for our pain and fear -- it is the mixture of love for us and everything we represent mixed with the thrill of denigrating and defeating that which some better part of them knows to be right.

[tanyev]

1. Nailed it.

I read through a lot of the comments on Hillary's campaign Facebook posts and you have put into words what I observed. Sometimes I happened to be on Facebook when a new post popped up, and the troll comments would start within seconds. Of course many of them were paid trolls or bots, but a lot of them were real people. They had to be following Hillary's posts for it to show up in their feed, and God only knows how many hours they were spending on Facebook waiting for the chance to go after libruls. And then they would revel in the fact that so many of the comments were pro-Trump/anti-Hillary and that there were hardly any negative comments on Trump's posts. Duh. All the liberals I know have much better things to do with their lives than waste precious hours writing negative comments on Donald Trump's Facebook posts.