{"id":58194,"date":"2024-12-26T07:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58194"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:38:33","slug":"there-are-political-professionals-who-act-like-trolls-and-they-do-not-do-it-by-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/26\/there-are-political-professionals-who-act-like-trolls-and-they-do-not-do-it-by-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"There are political professionals who act like trolls and they do not do it by chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both online and offline, it is common to find people who deserve to be described as toxic for their treatment of others.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/13\/the-things-that-communists-like-montero-and-belarra-should-apologize-for\/\">The things that communists like Montero and Belarra should apologize for<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/24\/how-to-spot-a-troll-on-and-off-social-media-and-what-to-do-if-one-harasses-you\/\">How to spot a troll on and off social media and what to do if one harasses you<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Among them are the so-called trolls. <a href=\"https:\/\/dle.rae.es\/trol\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Spanish Academy defines them as follows<\/a>: <em>\"In internet forums and social networks, <strong>a user who publishes provocative, offensive or inappropriate messages with the aim of annoying, attracting attention<\/strong> or boycotting the conversation.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder what drives some people to behave like this towards others. I suppose that <strong>in many cases they do it out of hatred for those who do not think like them<\/strong>, that insane inability to accept that not everyone thinks like you and that those who have different ways of thinking are not necessarily bad people. <strong>In other cases the explanation would be given by psychologists<\/strong>, since there are people who suffer from mental disorders that make them unbearable.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>there are trolls who act this way on purpose, with a clear purpose<\/strong>, knowing full well what they are doing when they try to get attention, sometimes in a pathetic and desperate way. <strong>Among these people there are professional politicians, people who live off taxpayers' money<\/strong>, developing a profession in which sometimes, to get the attention of the media and the public (even if it is for bad), some are capable of doing anything.<\/p>\n<p>Let's look at an example. There are two women who were ministers in the Spanish government and who are now members of parliament for <strong>a far-left party that is struggling to get media attention by any means necessary<\/strong>, because they have been losing a lot of support in recent elections and run the risk of becoming a marginal force. <strong>These two people have been saying all kinds of nonsense for months to get us to pay a little attention to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do these people bring to the political debate? Little or nothing. <strong>When someone only engages in provocation, insulting and slandering other people to get attention, they deserve to be ignored.<\/strong> But these two former ministers are succeeding because their tactic of provocation works, as their rivals fall right into the trap.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, <strong>when a troll acts the way he does it's because he knows that those he attacks will help him get publicity<\/strong>, either by answering him and playing along or by others doing it instead. That game ends when you apply <a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/lengua\/refranero\/ficha.aspx?Par=59188&Lng=0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a wise Spanish saying: <em>\"There is no greater contempt than not showing appreciation.\"<\/em><\/a> <strong>What annoys a troll the most is not when you answer him<\/strong> or even return the insults (in fact, that's what he wants to achieve his goal, which is to get attention). <strong>What annoys him the most is when you ignore him.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both online and offline, it is common to find people who deserve to be described as toxic for their treatment of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[10497,11683,10169,7841],"class_list":["post-58194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-far-left","tag-ione-belarra","tag-irene-montero","tag-podemos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}