wow roach, I wasn't expecting a Philosophical explanation.. but damn.. well said. I liked this part best:
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so if there is a difference between d.a. and troll, it is rhetorical--a troll is a form of devil's advocacy that you dont like. for whatever reason. or that the mods dont like, for whatever reason.
there is a rhetoric of sincerity and there is a rhetoric of experimentation, maybe--and there are folk who use the first to do the second or whose mode is to move from the second and give the impression of moving from the first.
and you cant tell.
one can always flip into the other.
in fact, posts probably are characterized by a continuous shuttle between the two. abstraction makes such things safe.
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