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That happened to a friend of mine. Before he saw Empire, a guy (I was going to write friend, but clearly that isn't the correct word for this person) walked up to him and, in his Darth Vader voice said, "Luke. I am your father."

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Agree. The problem with flaming trolls on sites such as DK is it has become very difficult to see the dividing line between trolling and immature passion. The whole Bernie event was/is a prime example. I suggested to two members of my family that maybe they were spreading Russian propaganda when they posted photos of HRC in a very nice designer dress, claiming that this showed that she was part of the 'elite' and therefore unworthy of our support. I got an immediate flame response--and this was on my FB page (no longer exists) that my whole family read daily. I challenged their over-reaction, only to have half a dozen "fuck off uncle Mark" message posted. Wow. Passion, or trolling? These were family members, so it wasn't exactly trolling, but it was...

And who's to say that being immaturely passionate isn't exactly what we need? There's an article over at The Guardian today that basically says we must have a massive rebellion in order to move our political machine to do something about the catastrophic environmental extinction event on it's way. Perhaps what's true is that we do need to start fighting in the streets, calling out folks on blogs, etc.

I don't happen to think we can't call for radical change and still be civil, but I 'get' the tendency to flame those who are not helping. The problem is, of course, that one leftist's ceiling is another leftist's floor.

But I do like that folks around here embrace passion and harsh reality while being respectful of each other, and when they aren't, the entire community shows them the door. It's being nice, only without pants.

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