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(44,119 posts)They will engage in every tactic in the Karl Rove playbook in order to sow division. They specialize in coming to progressive websites and stirring the pot.
They post endless misleading headlines/hit pieces about Democrats, and never say a bad word against any Republican.
Their goal is Divide and conquer. The more division and divisiveness there is on DU the happier they are. End goal is to support and elect more Republicans or Libertarian Teabagger Republicans, depending on their orientation or who is signing their paychecks.
BetterBeleiveIt is an example of this kind of troll. She posted endless articles that were hatchet jobs against Dems based on half-truth and innuendo. When members debunked the posted articles, she accused them of attacking her personally.
Eventually she screwed up and revealed her true intentions by posting anti-Democratic articles from Right-wing sources. At that point,the admins banned her.
This is nothing new, Enrique posted about a particularly egregious one from 2004. He was quite good, and was never caught. However he revealed what he really was on election night 2004:
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3345521
You werent here for seventhson
an ACTUAL troll who was allowed for some reason to rack up thousands of posts accusing John Kerry of ridiculous conspiracy theories, while he was our party's nominee against Bush in 2004.
He was only banned when he outed himself as a troll. How he survived I don't know, he appears to have been really good at working the system, for example sucking up to Will Pitt and Skinner.
He wasn't the only one either. There was a little group of trolls that might have been the same person, their posts amounted to propaganda, like posting photoshops of dems in "pink tutus", the same photoshops that appeared on right-wing sites. No substantive criticisms, just content-free bashing.
And again, they were allowed to rack up thousands of posts and not many people seemed to mind.
DU today is NOTHING like what it used to be, but it is exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
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