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2. Give the trolls this: They know their audience

Reply to Blue_Adept (Original post)

Fri Nov 3, 2017, 12:20 PM

Nov 2017

Not that their audience is the most perspicacious bunch on the planet, but the trolls sure know what's going to get them all riled up, and that they don't have to go to any trouble at all to bolster their bullshit with anything approaching a fact.

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