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tert in seattle

gtr wrote:
> On 2015-08-10 19:24:30 +0000, said:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:08:39 -0700, gtr > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What's revolting is not that there are jackasses whose only goal in
>>> life is disruption and destruction, what nauseates most is the degree
>>> to which well-meaning and interested people are so easily manipulated
>>> into facilitating it. Every. Single. Time.
>>
>> Waaay back when usenet was new the only time we suffered this troll
>> behaviour was when smarty pant kids got out of school for the summer.
>
> Yeah, long ago, when we didn't have access to everything, part of that
> everything was an investation of jackals. I was doing forums in the
> mid-80's before Al Gore's act of congress created the internet. And
> the fact that his legislative initiative is still seen as some kind of
> "lie", is an evidentiary unit in my argument that the battle for
> malevolence is winning.

I blame Newt Gingrich