When an 80-year-old man relies on clichés like "living in your mum's basement" to insult strangers on an English-language forum, he is deploying a heavily outdated, copy-and-paste internet trope. For an isolated senior citizen, throwing around phrases like "basement dweller" serves a very specific, desperate psychological purpose. It is a protective shield designed to flip his own grim reality onto his targets.
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