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  DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2026-05-22 13:25 -0400
    Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-05-22 22:52 +0000
      Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> - 2026-05-23 02:21 +0000
        Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family Skeeter <invalid@none.com> - 2026-05-23 04:01 -0600
      Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-05-22 19:36 -0700
        Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-05-23 06:02 -0400
          Re: DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2026-05-23 12:10 +0000
            Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 09:17 -0500
    Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 21:13 -0500
      Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2026-05-22 19:39 -0700
        Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer Skeeter <invalid@none.com> - 2026-05-23 04:00 -0600
          Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 08:04 -0500
        Yet Another Rage-Bait Fail AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 08:02 -0500

#1223250 — DNI Gabbard To Spend Time With Her Family

Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
 | 
 | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
 | ...
<https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-trump-cabinet>

    --bks

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#1223274

On 2026-05-22, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
> Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
> | 
> | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
> | ...
><https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-trump-cabinet>
>
>     --bks

And yet another example of why I refer to the democrats as the evil party
of Satan.

-- 
pothead

"Often imitated, never duplicated."

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
It's inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

-- Winston Churchill

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#1223296

pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
news:10uqmmk$1r9ha$1@pothead.dont-email.me: 

> On 2026-05-22, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
>> Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
>> | 
>> | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
>> | ...
>><https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-
>>trump-cabinet> 
>>
>>     --bks
> 
> And yet another example of why I refer to the democrats as the evil
> party of Satan.
> 

  Because you prefer the Christian Party of Trump.




"I moved on her actually, she was down 
in Palm Beach and I failed. I’ll admit it. 
I did try to fuck her, she was married ... 
and I moved on her very heavily" 
Donald Trump, 2005
https://tinyurl.com/2t3p9fbf

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#1223333

In article <XnsB454D8465561629555@185.151.15.190>, 
noemail@aol.com says...
> 
> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
> news:10uqmmk$1r9ha$1@pothead.dont-email.me: 
> 
> > On 2026-05-22, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
> >> Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
> >> | 
> >> | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
> >> | ...
> >><https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-
> >>trump-cabinet> 
> >>
> >>     --bks
> > 
> > And yet another example of why I refer to the democrats as the evil
> > party of Satan.
> > 
> 
>   Because you prefer the Christian Party of Trump.

So you approve of Satan worship?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "I moved on her actually, she was down 
> in Palm Beach and I failed. I?ll admit it. 
> I did try to fuck her, she was married ... 
> and I moved on her very heavily" 
> Donald Trump, 2005
> https://tinyurl.com/2t3p9fbf

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#1223298

On 2026-05-22 15:52, pothead wrote:
> On 2026-05-22, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
>> Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
>> |
>> | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
>> | ...
>> <https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-trump-cabinet>
>>
>>      --bks
> 
> And yet another example of why I refer to the democrats as the evil party
> of Satan.
> 

Explain that...

...if you can.

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#1223334

Alan wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:

> On 2026-05-22 15:52, pothead wrote:
>> On 2026-05-22, Bradley K. Sherman <bks@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Another rat deserts the sinking ship:
>>> |
>>> | Tulsi Gabbard resigns from Trump Cabinet
>>> | ...
>>> <https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-resigns-from-trump-cabinet>
>> 
>> And yet another example of why I refer to the democrats as the evil party
>> of Satan.
>
> Explain that...
>
> ...if you can.

It's just the usual crockpotting.

Move along now.

-- 
Sometime when you least expect it, Love will tap you on the shoulder...
and ask you to move out of the way because it still isn't your turn.
		-- N. V. Plyter

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#1223344

Purged:
 | 
 | Tulsi Gabbard Takes the Exit Ramp
 | 
 | Excluded from Trump's inner circle, she sought the
 | president's approval by spreading baseless claims.
 | ...
<https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/05/tulsi-gabbard-resigns-odni-trump/687280/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyb2vacmqJIzmLaHPbymuR5w>

    --bks

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#1223359 — Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) 
Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

=====

On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...  

Another rat liberal's lies:

Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence 
so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of 
bone cancer. 

=====

Notice how this faggot always writes a sensationalized, lie headline that is 
completely detached from the actual text of the article?

He relies entirely on 'Headline-Only Bias' because he knows most people just 
skim the subject line. It's a cheap psychological TRICK USED BY PEOPLE WHO 
CAN'T WIN AN ARGUMENT on the merits, so they have to invent a fake narrative 
in the title to manipulate the room.

1. Headline-Only Cognitive Bias

Psychological studies on internet reading habits show that up to 80% of people 
only read the headline of a post before moving on, sharing it, or forming an 
opinion.

Trolls, like SpermMan, know this.

He doesn't care if the article body contradicts the title. He knows that his 
fellow ideologues will read the title, get a quick hit of confirmation bias, 
and internalize the lie without ever reading the text below it. He is 
weaponizing his faggot audience's laziness.

Context-Switching

By pairing a wild, emotionally charged lie in the headline with a relatively 
dry, factual news summary in the body, he creates cognitive disorientation. 

When a normal reader points out, "Hey, the article doesn't say that, "the 
troll can shift the goalposts and say, "But the facts in the article are 
true."

It's a bait-and-switch designed to keep people permanently off-balance.

=============================================================================

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has 
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the 
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or 
stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The 
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were 
all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's 
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a dis   tinctive language consisting solely of 
hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from 
reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk 
opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump 
announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. 
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be 
received positively by TDS'ers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first 
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. 
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in 
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - 
the very existence of George W. Bush."

Message-ID: <MPG.447ac620f1330efe98d14e@news.eternal-september.org>

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#1223294 — Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...  

Another rat liberal's lies:

Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence 
so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of 
bone cancer. 

=====

Notice how this faggot always writes a sensationalized, lie headline that is 
completely detached from the actual text of the article?

He relies entirely on 'Headline-Only Bias' because he knows most people just 
skim the subject line. It's a cheap psychological TRICK USED BY PEOPLE WHO 
CAN'T WIN AN ARGUMENT on the merits, so they have to invent a fake narrative 
in the title to manipulate the room.

1. Headline-Only Cognitive Bias

Psychological studies on internet reading habits show that up to 80% of people 
only read the headline of a post before moving on, sharing it, or forming an 
opinion.

Trolls, like SpermMan, know this.

He doesn't care if the article body contradicts the title. He knows that his 
fellow ideologues will read the title, get a quick hit of confirmation bias, 
and internalize the lie without ever reading the text below it. He is 
weaponizing his faggot audience's laziness.

Context-Switching

By pairing a wild, emotionally charged lie in the headline with a relatively 
dry, factual news summary in the body, he creates cognitive disorientation. 

When a normal reader points out, "Hey, the article doesn't say that, "the 
troll can shift the goalposts and say, "But the facts in the article are 
true."

It's a bait-and-switch designed to keep people permanently off-balance.

=============================================================================

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has 
been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the 
point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or 
stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The 
president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were 
all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's 
vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of 
hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from 
reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk 
opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump 
announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would 
suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. 
There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be 
received positively by TDS'ers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 
2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-
night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first 
coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. 
The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in 
otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - 
the very existence of George W. Bush."

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#1223300 — Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

On 2026-05-22 19:13, AlleyCat wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...
> 
> Another rat liberal's lies:
> 
> Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence
> so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of
> bone cancer.
And you KNOW she can't be lying about that...

...right?

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#1223332 — Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

In article <10ur41j$1ubpa$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-
uh@nope.com says...
> 
> On 2026-05-22 19:13, AlleyCat wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...
> > 
> > Another rat liberal's lies:
> > 
> > Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence
> > so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of
> > bone cancer.
> And you KNOW she can't be lying about that...
> 
> ...right
You are so brain swashed. 

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#1223349 — Re: Filter-Free Fridays for Faggots - Episode #4,929 - (The Information Polluter) Tulsi Gabbard Resigns To Spend Time With Husband Who Has Cancer

On Sat, 23 May 2026 04:00:26 -0600,  Skeeter says...  

> 
> In article <10ur41j$1ubpa$2@dont-email.me>, nuh-
> uh@nope.com says...
> > 
> > On 2026-05-22 19:13, AlleyCat wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...
> > > 
> > > Another rat liberal's lies:
> > > 
> > > Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence
> > > so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of
> > > bone cancer.
> > And you KNOW she can't be lying about that...
> > 
> > ...right
> You are so brain swashed. 

Sorry Skeeter... You gotta have a brain for it to be washed... or swashed. ;-)

Liberalism done ate his.

=============================================================================

White Liberals More Likely To Have A Mental Health Condition

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/22/white-liberals-more-likely-
have-mental-health-cond/

Apr 22, 2021 - Sixty-two percent of Whites who classify themselves as "very 
liberal" or "liberal" have been told by a doctor they have a mental health 
condition, as compared to 26% of conservatives and...

=====

White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems... - Newsmax

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/white-liberals-mental-health-
study/2021/04/20/id/1018293/

The Pew Study, Which The Washington Free Beacon notes was published last year 
but only gained attention in a recent article, showed that white liberals of 
all ages were more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition than 
moderates or conservatives, with the disparity particularly pronounced among 
those aged 18-29, according to evie...

=====

Study: Young White Liberals More Likely to Have Mental Health Problems

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/22/study-young-white-liberals-more-
likely-to-have-mental-health-problems/

Apr 22, 2021 - When sex and age were factors, 56.3 percent of white women 
between the ages of 18 and 29 and who labeled themselves as "liberal," said 
they had been given a mental health diagnosis, compared to 27.3 percent of 
conservatives in the same categories and 28.4 percent of moderates:

=====

62% of "liberal" or very "liberal" whites have a mental health condition

https://www.independentsentinel.com/62-of-liberal-or-very-liberal-whites-have-
a-mental-health-condition/

According to a Pew Research Center survey, 62% percent of Whites who classify 
themselves as "very liberal" or "liberal" has been told by a doctor they have 
a mental health condition. Only 26% of conservatives and 20% of moderates have 
been told they have such a condition, the study found.

=====

Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness...

https://wibc.com/108211/pew-study-white-liberals-disproportionately-suffer-
from-mental-illness/

White women, ages 18-29, who identified as liberal were given a mental health 
diagnosis from medical professionals at a rate of 56.3%, as compared to 28.4% 
in moderates and 27.3% in conservatives. Zach Goldberg, a Ph.D. candidate in 
political science, consolidated the study's info in a set of visuals and 
posted them to a thread on Twitter.

SCIENCE: White Libs More Likely To Have Mental Health Problems

https://freebeacon.com/politics/white-libs-mental-health/

Within this demographic, 34 percent of liberals reported having mental health 
problems, compared with 22 percent of moderates and 16 percent of 
conservatives. Zach Goldberg, the doctoral...

=====

White Liberals Twice as Likely to be Diagnosed with Psychological Problems

https://www.hennessysview.com/p/psychologic-disorders-white-liberals

Nearly 1 in 2 (45.9%) of white liberals have been diagnosed with mental health 
disorders. White liberals of all ages are more than twice as likely as 
conservatives of any age to suffer from mental health disorders. White 
liberals are almost twice as likely as non-white liberals to be diagnosed with 
mental health problems.

=====

6 Reasons Why Liberalism IS A Mental Disorder (LOL) - The Political Insider

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/6-reasons-why-liberalism-can-be-considered-a-
mental-disorder/

In 2005, Michael Savage famously wrote a book titled, Liberalism is a Mental 
Disorder, the subject of which is self-explanatory. Additionally, Dr. Lyle 
Rossiter, a board-certified clinical psychologist, wrote a book in which he 
diagnosed the ideology of the left as a tangible mental illness.

=====

Personality Traits, Mental Illness, and Ideology

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-
else/202103/personality-traits-mental-illness-and-ideology

specifically, surveys on the " big five " traits of extraversion, 
agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience have 
found that people identifying as politically...

=====

Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health...

https://theliberal.ie/study-claims-over-50-of-liberal-women-under-30-have-
mental-health-issues-men-and-women-with-liberal-views-more-likely-to-be-
mentally-unwell/

Study claims over 50% of liberal women under 30 have mental health issues, men 
and women with liberal views more likely to be mentally unwell April 24, 2021 
- 12:01 Gerard Clarke Irish News

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#1223346 — Yet Another Rage-Bait Fail

On Fri, 22 May 2026 19:39:46 -0700,  Alan says...  
 
> On 2026-05-22 19:13, AlleyCat wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 22 May 2026 13:25:20 -0400 (EDT),  Bradley K. Sherman says...
> > 
> > Another rat liberal's lies:
> > 
> > Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her position as Director of National Intelligence
> > so she can support her husband, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of
> > bone cancer.

> And you KNOW she can't be lying about that...
> 
> ...right?
             
So sad.

LOL - Rich Kid Stalker Needs So Much Attention, He's Now Rage-Baiting

Poor faggot. Now, he's rage-baiting to garner more attention his brother must 
have stolen from him as a child and even as an adult.

When a troll, like Ski Bunny, realizes they've lost the actual argument, they 
switch goals from persuading to provoking. 

Dropping a blatant and obvious lie at the very end of a post is a calculated 
move to force you to hit "reply".

LOL

OK... here is the attention I'll give you... shit attention. Of course, we 
know you narcissistic sadists love it, but let's give everyone the opportunity 
to see what you are.

=====

The Psychology Behind the "Parting Shot":

Psychologists and researchers who study online behavior have broken down 
exactly what is happening in the troll's brain during this final maneuver:

Negative Attention Seeking:

To a normal person, attention is only good if it's positive. 

To a troll, any attention is a win. 

If they post a reasonable argument, people ignore them. 

If they post a massive, ridiculous lie, they know your brain's natural impulse 
will be to correct them. 

LOL

Psychologically, they are starved for validation, and forcing you to react is 
how they prove to themselves that they have power over your emotions.

Nope.

The Dopamine Hit of the "Last Word":

In the mind of an online troll, whoever gets the last word "wins" the 
interaction.

"I win!" - Pedantic Faggot, Alan Baker

By dropping a wild lie as a parting shot, they THINK they're setting a trap. 

They know you have two choices:

1.) Reply to correct the lie: Which gives them another chance to drag out the 
argument and stay the center of attention.

2.) Walk away: Which allows them to strut around the forum claiming, "See? He 
didn't reply to my last point, so I won the debate."

LOL

Poor nerds... they all NEED "wins".

===== 

Trolls like rich kid are too chicken shit to commit to refutation, in case 
he gets proven wrong and has to eat crow dick:

The Primary Tactic of Ski Bunny's "Sealioning" 

Sealioning is a type of trolling that consists of PURSUING PEOPLE with 
relentless requests for evidence or asking questions, often about tangential 
or minutiae points. 

Rich boy ignores the "mountains of evidence" to point at a "pebble of 
minutiae" and demands we explain the pebble before the conversation can 
continue. 

The Shift: Asking about "Whataboutisms" and "Red Herrings"

It's so sad... thinking that THAT'S the only way he can win... in HIS mind 
only, of course. 

If faggot can't answer his own questions, the faggot need not ask them, 
because anyone smarter than him, knows better to fall for the faggot reindeer 
games he plays. 

He's just trying to force people into a "defensive" position where they have 
to justify their focus, effectively moving the goalposts so he never has to 
acknowledge the original point. 

Why does he do it, other than to be a disingenuous little faggot who KNOWS he 
can't refute and compete against better minds? 

Recent psychological studies (including a major meta-analysis from February 
2025) have consistently linked this specific style of trolling to the "Dark 
Tetrad" of personality traits: 

Ever wonder why trolls like ski bunny and Rudy keep coming back for more after 
you insult them? They're sadists, who don't CARE that they've been made fools 
of... they love and NEED the attention they never got from mumsy and da. 

It's "Ordinary People", "LoTR: Return of the King", "Stand By Me" and "Legends 
of the Fall" all over again. Methinks he has unresolved issues with the types 
of problems, like survivng when brother didn't, like those in the movies 
mentioned. 

Everyday Sadism: This is the biggest predictor. These individuals experience 
genuine schadenfreude (pleasure from others' misfortune... AND THEIR OWN!). 

They aren't trying to be right; they are trying to make it SEEM he's refuting, 
when in fact he's not... he's just sowing doubt, and the ONLY one who fall for 
that shit, are those on HIS "side". Your "LOL" or angry response is his 
"reward signal." 

Narcissism: Trolls often feel powerless or overlooked in their real lives. By 
derailing a conversation on a public forum like Usenet, they exert what they 
THINK is control. 

Forcing a knowledgeable person to answer their "stupid" questions provides a 
hit of ego-boosting power. 

Nope... 

Trolls like rich kid are too chicken shit to commit to refutation, in case he 
gets proven wrong and has to eat crow dick: 

"Sealioning" 

This is likely what we're seeing. Sealioning is a type of trolling that 
consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence or asking 
questions, often about tangential or minutiae points. 

Rich boy ignores the "mountain" to point at a "pebble" and demands we explain 
the pebble before the conversation can continue. 

The Shift: "Whataboutism" and Red Herrings 

When he asks, "How is Iran any different than Korea?" after making the point 
about attacking Iran because of decades of terrorism... he's using 
Whataboutism he and other libertards SAY that hate. So... hypocrisy's in the 
mix too. 

North Korea and Iran have NOTHING to do with each other, so, sowing doubt by 
asking irrelevant and conflating questions makes faggot rich kid feel like 
he's WINNING!

So sad, thinking that's the only way he can win, in his mind only, of course. 

Ski bunny isn't actually interested in the differences in why we attacked Iran 
and not North Korea... he wants you to try and answer a question that there is 
no answer to, unless you know those in charge of making these decisions 
personally and can get THEIR input. He knows this is impossible, so, in HIS 
mind it's just another "I WIN!" situation. He's trying to force you into a 
"defensive" position where you have to justify your focus on Iran, effectively 
moving the goalposts so he never has to acknowledge your original point. 

Why He Does It? 

Recent psychological studies (including a major meta-analysis from February 
2025) have consistently linked this specific style of trolling to the "Dark 
Tetrad" of personality traits: 

Everyday Sadism: This is the biggest predictor. These individuals experience 
genuine schadenfreude (pleasure from others' misfortune AND his, as long as 
he's being paid ANY attention).

He isn't trying to be right; he's trying to frustrate. An "LOL" or angry 
response is their "reward signal." 

Narcissism: Trolls often feel powerless or overlooked in their real lives. By 
derailing a conversation on a public forum like Usenet, they exert control. 
Forcing a knowledgeable person to answer their "stupid" questions provides a 
hit of ego-boosting power. 

Hyper-Pedantry 

Ski Bunny Rich Kid focuses on a single, irrelevant grain of sand because he's 
blind to the desert.

He thinks moving the goalposts and changing the topic, BOTH of which HE 
accuses others of doing, will give him that all-elusive "I WIN!". 

He can't handle the "Big Picture" math, so they cling to a single "What if?" 
like a life raft. 
                      
The "Rhetorical Cowardice" (The Pivot):

When he answers a fact with a question, it is a confession of defeat. 

Every time he asks "what about... how is this different than...?" or pivot to 
the minutiae, he's admitting he cannot refute the data. 

He's essentially "running out the clock." It's the digital equivalent of a 
child sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "Why?" because they 
lost the game five minutes ago. 

The Psychological "Basement": Why They Exist 

Recent studies on "Online Firestorm" behavior and "Antisocial Personality 
Traits" (Dark Tetrad) suggest these individuals suffer from: 

Insignificant Ego Compensation: He feels small in his real life... perhaps 
ignored at work or by family. On Usenet, by "forcing" a smart person to 
acknowledge them, he feels a fleeting sense of relevance. He isn't "trolling"; 
he's begging for attention in the most annoying way possible. 

Asking a tangential question isn't a rebuttal; it's a white flag. 

If you can't find a flaw in the numbers faggot, just say so. 

I don't have the time or the crayons to explain the difference between a 
single intercept and a mass-scale conflict to you again. Stick to the topic or 
stay in the PLONK! pile. 

PLONK!

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