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Trump isn't a troll, he has no sense of whimsy and he obviously cares way too much. The whole point of old-school trolling is to wind up the rubes over some tri
by ForHackernews 6y ago
Trump isn't a troll, he has no sense of whimsy and he obviously cares way too much. The whole point of old-school trolling is to wind up the rubes over some trivial nonsense for your own amusement.
Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage.
- Jonnax 6y agoWords change their meaning. Troll has not meant that in more than a decade.
- viridian 6y agoBut the modern meaning is basically either just "someone I disagree with", "someone I don't like", "someone acting in bad faith", or "someone in the out group". It's a word that means practically nothing now.
- nix23 6y agoIf your going really old-school 'trolling' look up Red herring...trump trows allot of them around. >Incidentally, PHP is a fantastic language and Haskell is hot garbage. That's NOT Trolling if both of them are fantastic.