Isis Part II

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists

Let's start by getting our definitions straight: An Internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, in fact, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

What kind of person would do this? Some Canadian researchers decided to find out.

They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior. They were looking for evidence that linked trolling with the "Dark Tetrad" of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.


They found that Dark Tetrad scores were highest among people who said trolling was their favorite Internet activity. To get an idea of how much more prevalent these traits were among Internet trolls, see this figure from the paper:


Look at how low the Dark Tetrad scores are for everyone except the trolls! Their scores for all four traits soar on the chart. The relationship between trolling and the Dark Tetrad is so significant that the authors write in their paper:


"... the associations between sadism and GAIT (Global Assessment of Internet Trolling) scores were so strong that it might be said that online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists." [emphasis added]

Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. To quote the authors once more (because this is a truly quotable article): "Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!"

The next time you encounter a troll online, remember:
1.These trolls are some truly difficult people.
2.It is your suffering that brings them pleasure, so the best thing you can do is ignore them.

Internet Trolls Really Are Horrible People; Narcissistic, Machiavellian, psychopathic, and sadistic.

By Chris Mooney
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html

The Internet is sadists' playground.

In the past few years, the science of Internet trollology has made some strides. Last year, for instance, we learned that by hurling insults and inciting discord in online comment sections, so-called Internet trolls (who are frequently anonymous) have a polarizing effect on audiences, leading to politicization, rather than deeper understanding of scientific topics.

That’s bad, but it’s nothing compared with what a new psychology paper has to say about the personalities of trolls themselves. The research, conducted by Erin Buckels of the University of Manitoba and two colleagues, sought to directly investigate whether people who engage in trolling are characterized by personality traits that fall in the so-called Dark Tetrad: Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), and sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others).


It is hard to overplay the results: The study found correlations, sometimes quite significant, between these traits and trolling behavior. What’s more, it also found a relationship between all Dark Tetrad traits (except for narcissism) and the overall time that an individual spent, per day, commenting on the Internet.

Craig Fry -- " ... and the other side that is wrong about everything"

Or do those posts have something to do with discussing ISIL?

CNN)President Barack Obama, speaking at his summit on countering violent extremism Wednesday, sought to strike a balance between appealing for more acceptance of Muslim-Americans while emphasizing the need to remain vigilant against radicals who could turn violent.

"We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam," Obama said during his remarks, adding later that Muslim leaders "need to do more to discredit the notion that our nations are determined to suppress Islam."

Obama went to lengths before the summit began to avoid linking extremism to the Muslim faith; his intent, aides say, was to avoid giving credence to the ideologies of Islamic State or al Qaeda terrorists.

On Wednesday he sought to explain his wording, declaring al Qaeda and ISIS "desperate for legitimacy."

"They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam," he said. "We must never accept the premise that they put forward because it is a lie. Nor should we grant these terrorists the religious legitimacy that they seek. They are not religious leaders. They are terrorists."

You don't like hearing from the other side??
What's wrong Sketch/stench/ EdwardT

I thought this was a free forum
I have Never Been a troll, Fact
unlike you,

I think Bruce Kay pinned you perfectly as well
Why are you in such denial?

The Atlantic Monthly article is only half truth and avoids the whole truth as usual .....

Very good speech by the President today. We are lucky to have such an intelligent leader.

It wasn't a coincidence that all those shiny new American weapons systems were handed over to ISIS without so much as a WTF by the USA Military Lease Department.

I'm out

the turn to the bottom of this thread has just began

Feb 18, 2015 - 07:29pm PT
Clinton watched the whole thing in Bosnia unfold as tens of thousands of innocent women and children were slaughtered and did absolutely nothing for well over five years. Nothing!

Feb 18, 2015 - 07:55pm PT
It's true. The self determination of the Yugoslavian states went on for years. It came to be regarded by western media as something "those people" loved to indulge in.

10 years collectively of civil war in Europe and no one else gave a sh#t until Clinton was embarrassed into doing something. It's a fact.

Yeah, after Clinton sat on his prickless ass and so many hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children were brutalized and slaughtered.

WBraun: when did you last travel outside of the US, and to where.

Getting yer panties all bunched up and saying he's killed the thread proves you can't be in the same room with a differing opinion.

In an unusual move, Pentagon officials disclosed details Thursday of military planning aimed at recapturing Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, from Islamic State forces before the summer.

A senior official with U.S. Central Command, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, said the operation would involve as many as 25,000 Iraqi government troops and Kurdish militia fighters backed by coalition airstrikes and surveillance systems, and could begin in April or May.

It wasn't immediately clear why the Pentagon would publicly disclose a major military operation so far in advance unless it was intended, at least in part, to rattle the estimated 2,000 Sunni fighters believed to hold the northern Iraqi city.

He was advised by EVERYONE,

US completely pulling out of Iraq,

schizophrenia
noun schizo·phre·nia \ˌskit-sə-ˈfrē-nē-ə\
: a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions

I heard an excellent bit on NPR yesterday where the Saudi Intel head was really laying it on the line. Dude was straight up and no BS. He called
out the Euros for being the limp-wristed worthless lot they usually are.

They are not messing with the oil shipments either. The choke points at either end of the canal would be a great place to sink a couple supertankers if they really wanted to get some attention.

They won't do that RB, it is probably their oil in them tankers. One of their primary sources of revenue.

Progressive politicians and pundits trying to cope with ISIS lapse into a shrill incoherence that has nothing to do with their outrage at its atrocities and a lot to do with their sheer incomprehension. Terms like “apocalyptic nihilism” get thrown around as if heavy metal were beginning to make a comeback.

Those few analysts who admit that the Islamic State might be a just a little Islamic emphasize that it’s a medieval throwback, as if there were some modern version of Islam to compare it to.

Journalists trying to make sense of ISIS demanding Jizya payments and taking slaves ought to remember that these aren’t medieval behaviors in the Middle East. Not unless medieval means the 19th century. And that’s spotting them a whole century. Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from the United States.

Feb 20, 2015 - 11:20am PT
Instead of this verbal ping pong, why don't some of you liberals here talk about how to solve and or react to issis..Or if we even should react to issis. And then what do you consider desirable attributes of issis types if any.

It's all Crap Locker.... Political OT's that is. Every single one of em.

However, most of the posters only have one azzzhole through which to dump. Unfortunately, you must resemble Swiss cheese.

Love the flung crap on Susan's part.
Great double standard that prevails here. Good stuff.

Feb 20, 2015 - 12:56pm PT
wouldn't want to join a club that would have me as a member"


At least we do have that in common my friend. You been putting any more cars into the LEE VINING creek? ;/


Oh, it's not a concept. It is real. Evidenced by so much that goes on here on the ST. This thread being a prime example.

It's the Tribal thing. Know what I mean, B!

The Chief

climber
RFLMAO here on the Taco

Feb 20, 2015 - 01:16pm PT
You'll find out B. We gotta do what we gotta do to keep the sanity.

Nice shot on McAide. Wet snows gonna start flying next week for a while so you all might consider heading back up there in April for some snowy challenges.

I find it tasteless to lampoon the fiery death of Muath al-Kaseasbah. That was a human being. A living person burned alive.

I find it tasteless to lampoon the fiery death of Muath al-Kaseasbah. That was a human being. A living person burned alive.

Todenhöfer then said that he has seen many wars and IS is "the strongest group I ever met.

Very strong, very clever, very enthusiastic.

They are extremely brutal. Not just head-cutting.

I'm talking about the strategy of religious cleansing.

That's their official philosophy.

They are talking about 500 million people who have to die."

Feb 19, 2015 - 12:58pm PT
Well the president seems to be smoking some cheap crack theses days with his battle plan for issis being "social reforms and programs".. Isnt that the very things issis hates? I mean,, do you think they are concerned about social programs other that the training of the next generations of fighters? Is there any one home in the white house that still has a functioning brain?

The Chief
climber
RFLMAO here on the Taco

Feb 19, 2015 - 01:03pm PT
Ron, Left Winger SOCIALISM.

That is their answer for everything.... Gov't run/sponsored Programs. Don't be surprised if this afternoon after the table gahering with all them coalition members, the White House announces that one of the primary entities they are bringing to the table tomorrow is to offer all them ISIS dudes Labor Union Jobs clearing up the streets of NY, Boston and Detroit of all the record amounts of snow.

U.S. and Iraqi forces are planning to launch an offensive this spring designed to repel Islamic militants from the northern city of Mosul, a military official said.

There goes the surprise.

The Islamic State is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washington’s Persian Gulf allies.

I debated only the fact that it wasn't BUsh's plan to withdraw from Iraq that soon.

Wasn't it Bush that ordered and signed a bill saying we would pull out in 2010, and Obama followed through with?

Well that's wonderful, Z Brown but Malcolm X was no sentimentalist.

Stewart -- "Ron - or at least think first before you flip out."

This site full of clueless asshats. Biggest shitshow on the Internet this.

Feb 21, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
It shows that GW actually LISTENED to his advisors....respected their professionalism.....and knew how to lead.

Quite the opposite of the charlatan currently residing in the White House.

F*#k the Bush dynasty. There is no there, there.

All in all, it looks like a pretty shrewd move by Russia.

Obama now has 120 days to report back how he plans to sanction US allies Turkey and Israel – or face a UN Security Council resolution calling for sanctions on the US.

While the US would surely veto such a resolution, it provides an excellent opportunity for Russia to embarrass Obama and Israel by exposing their financial and military ties to ISIS.

Stewart

Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.

Feb 22, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
Hey Chief: As far as I can tell, I've never posted a single statement of claimed fact on this or any other thread that can't be verified by objective critics.

EdwardT; I said Bush and his buddies made a bundle - unfortunately, I don't have access to Dubya's tax return, but if I had control of corruption investigations relating to the complete destruction of Iraq, I'd certainly be putting Haliburton and Blackwater at or near the top of the list. What I can tell you as an indisputable fact is that there is a direct connection between the Bush family and the Bin Ladens - who were the only civilians allowed into airliners in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Stewart

EdwardT: Tell you what - I'll retract my statement when you provide me with verifiable information on where those hundreds of billions of UNAUDITED taxpayer dollars spent in Iraq got spent. The justification offered by the White House for the invasion of Iraq doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test - Dubya Bush is genetically and intellectually incapable of acting altruistically.

How about you offering some indisputable facts to support your ignorant abuse for once?

Number of f*#ks given:

"our answers are so self-evidently correct that the other side’s failure to embrace them constitutes a kind of psychological disorder or a medical condition."