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Re: Linux Trolls Fail Because

From Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Linux Trolls Fail Because
Date 2016-10-12 20:32 -0400
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ronb wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:05:14 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> ronb wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:26:12 -0400, Marek Novotny wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2016-10-11, Octavian W. Lagrange <olagrang@perch.invalid> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> // snip
>>>> 
>>>>> Little Beaver loves Mad Magazine.  He reviewed at least one issue
>>>>> here in cola.
>>>> 
>>>> Seriously? I thought that was a kids magazine. Do adults typically
>>>> read Mad magazine?
>>>
>>> Mad Magazine hasn't been funny for years.
>> 
>> Or maybe you haven't had the ability to have fun for years?
>
> No. Once Time Warner completely took over Mad, it became "on the nose" 
> crap. Satire has to have an element of truth. Propaganda and satire don't 
> work well together. I used to like Mad a lot (in my early adult years) -- 
> and the change was sudden and complete. It changed from witty satire to 
> juvenile crap over night.  

I'm not quite sure I agree.  But I haven't read MAD since the "Biggest
Idiots of 2012" issue.  I tried to find the issue which featured Trump and
Alfred E. Neuman with the bad comb-over, but no luck.

Now, the Onion, on the other hand, I enjoy regularly.  And some of their
"articles" are quite mordant; some border on "sick".

One can find some H. L. Mencken essays such as

   http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1757718.Damn_

   Damn! (a Book of Calumny)
   by H.L. Mencken

   "The average man is far too stupid to make a joke. He may see a joke and
   love a joke, particularly when it floors and flabbergasts some person he
   dislikes, but the only way he can himself take part in the priming and
   pointing of a new one is by acting as its target. In brief, his personal
   contact with humor tends to fill him with an accumulated sense of
   disadvantage, of pricked complacency, of sudden and crushing defeat; and
   so, by an easy psychological process, he is led into the idea that the
   thing itself is incompatible with true dignity of character and
   intellect. Hence his deep suspicion of jokers, however adept their
   thrusts. "What a damned fool!"-this same half-pitying tribute he pays to
   wit and butt alike. 

Amazon tries to sell it, but it is actually in the public domain.  Barnes
and Noble does the same thing; you can find public domain books for "sale",
shown in searches right alongside their cost-burdened appropriations of
public domain content.

Now, a question:  Are our assclown trolls "wit", or "butt"?  You decide.

Anyway, you can find a copy, free, in a number of formats here, unencumbered
by some corporations "monetization":

   https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18948

   If George Washington were alive today, what a shining mark he would be
   for the whole camorra of uplifters, forward-lookers and professional
   patriots! He was the Rockefeller of his time, the richest man in the
   United States, a promoter of stock companies, a land-grabber, an
   exploiter of mines and timber. He was a bitter opponent of foreign
   alliances, and denounced their evils in harsh, specific terms. He had a
   liking for all forthright and pugnacious men, and a contempt for lawyers,
   schoolmasters and all other such obscurantists. He was not pious. He
   drank whisky whenever he felt chilly, and kept a jug of it handy. He knew
   far more profanity than Scripture, and used and enjoyed it more. He had
   no belief in the infallible wisdom of the common people, but regarded
   them as inflammatory dolts, and tried to save the republic from them. He
   advocated no sure cure for all the sorrows of the world, and doubted that
   such a panacea existed. He took no interest in the private morals of his
   neighbors.

   Inhabiting These States today, George would be ineligible for any office
   of honor or profit. The Senate would never dare confirm him; the
   President would not think of nominating him. He would be on trial in all
   the yellow journals for belonging to the Invisible Government, the Hell
   Hounds of Plutocracy, the Money Power, the Interests. The Sherman Act
   would have him in its toils; he would be under indictment by every grand
   jury south of the Potomac; the triumphant prohibitionists of his native
   state would be denouncing him (he had a still at Mount Vernon) as a
   debaucher of youth, a recruiting officer for insane asylums, a poisoner
   of the home. The suffragettes would be on his trail, with sentinels
   posted all along the Accotink road. The initiators and referendors would
   be bawling for his blood. The young college men of the Nation and the New
   Republic would be lecturing him weekly. He would be used to scare
   children in Kansas and Arkansas. The chautauquas would shiver whenever
   his name was mentioned....

   And what a chance there would be for that ambitious young district
   attorney who thought to shadow him on his peregrinations—and grab him
   under the Mann Act!

Hilarious stuff!

-- 
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,
his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the
worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one
day like any other day, only shorter.
		-- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"

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