LAMD Reflections

[Riobard]

I will pick it up here, not hijack a thread.

On many social forums exist fringe trolls. These bottom-fed miscreants share one purpose. The aim is to criticize, embarrass, or shut down other members. They are usually not well organized as a subgroup, each attempting to stage their own usually futile attempt at a mandibular paralysis hex on another member, sometimes desparately trying to recruit support, often demonstrating antipathy even among themselves. The digs can range from subtle to unambiguously obnoxious. 

I find it fascinating as a theme but usually droll. The central MO seems to be fruitless vying and lobbying for control. Oddly, once in a while these interlocuters contribute something of interest and value ... you might want to reserve your overall judgement about them, until, etc.

There are two fundamental ways to respond. First, ignore and avoid engagement, wait and see, shrug it off. Second, experiment with overtly holding your ground and critiquing the editorializing, gentle or more vigourous pushback, reciprocating the less than welcoming tone with a dose of the same medicine.

When someone is a pill, dishing back to them is tempting. Even the most guileless here can get their hackles up and behave against type, that is how pervasive and insidious the sick dynamics. That often results in a cascade effect as others weigh in and try to sort alliances. Before you can say boytoy, an elaborate set of overt or subtle vendettas sets all of us back on our heels and permeates completely neutral topics.

Look, this is likely to keep occurring. Think letters/comments to news articles. Who sucks up disagreement any more? 

Already I sense some readers making stabbing motions with their sharp red pens. So impatient, the same lack of delay tolerance that prompts seemingly random nastiness in the strangest of thread places.

[OMG WTF why did he use that word or phrase oh me oh my I have an 8-second attention span and it takes 9 seconds to look up a word in my dictionary ... oh kentucky fried krispy kreme kreist I don't have a thesaurus just an emoji pictionary. But, like, it only takes a split-second to be a cunt]

I have not met anyone here. It is not a vital source of social oxygen, but I sometimes find enough enjoyment to participate at various degrees. My approach is friendly but not friends. If I call something out it is because it grinds against my principles. If anyone thinks a personal attack is of any consequence you are sadly mistaken. This forum is a mere sliver of the real world.

I write this as an attempt to center my own thoughts on the unusually extra intense level of antagonistic spiciness that has flavoured our topics of late, as much as an attempt to offer some perspective that may be useful to some of you within the LAMD heading. 

Oh, and did I forget to say that nobody here is my editor. If you want to be my editor we can have a private discussion about my writing goals and what wages and benefits you have in store to provide.

[mvan1]

Your long dissertation, titled LAMD Reflections,  only applies to Latin America Men Destinations?

Just curious.  

 

 

[floridarob]

I plead the 1st (but can't ignore).....can't help myself...but I don't understand what is being said???

is almost 4am in Mexico.....had a crazy night, sort of. Ran into a bunch of "tricks/friends" at the same place.....didn't realize how small of a world it is

But it could be worse....could be snowing!

Did I hijack a thread??

[SolaceSoul]

3 hours ago, floridarob said:

I plead the 1st (but can't ignore).....can't help myself...but I don't understand what is being said???

This meme should it explain it for you, in a nutshell (and it doesn’t need to use a lot of big, fancy words to prove how smart it is)!

 

[Riobard]

All that is explained is a word in French I understand to mean 'same', and I am the one explaining it, so the thrust is plural similarity and commonality among more than one nut, greater than one shell?? Trying to put it together.

Who went the extra mile to go out and find a subject that has transformed this thread into a portrait gallery that is all over the place?

Very hard to read, not so difficult to read. Sometimes that level of counterfeit gif artistry is pitch perfect funny. Otherwise, laughable.

I repeat: patience is key. No need to roll over so fast to illustrate my initial point. Leave a little of the work to me.

This is being made easier than I thought. Just waiting on the one busy with multiple roles as advertised in LAMD direction. My patience is not tried. 

[SolaceSoul]

2 hours ago, Riobard said:

All that is explained is a word in French I understand to mean 'same'

When your Roget’s Thesaurus is overworked but your Google machine is broken:

 

[Riobard]

Ooohhhh ... that word that is in-our-face viral.

Like, Who knew?

Schoolmarms are also net-essential.  Maybe more so than ... what was it? ... auntie Meme. Now, she can be fun and knew how to get it out of her system.