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    The argument is sloppy.

    The working class makes gains when our work helps us as a class, not when we are forced to serve.

    If the wealthy are able to support the creation of wasteful luxuries for their own vanity, then they must be able to support activities that help the working class.

    The difference is that the latter may require some encouragement.

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        Many comments being posted are intended as satirical, but the actual apologia resembles satire so much that I think the intentional satire is rather creating confusion above all else.

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          Creating confusion for you maybe. Nobody else took my comment that seriously.

          I said “shooting holes in a water tower to make trickle-down economics work” as a reply to someone making an obvious quip. IDK if you’ve just never been around leftist discussions, but joking about how fucked trickle-down economics is isn’t an endorsement of building megayachts that wreck the environment and provide no good to society.

          Stop being intentionally obtuse, or just don’t blame others for your inability to read between the lines.

          EDIT to add: I also explicitly stated it was satire in response to the only other comment that replied to mine taking it seriously. But even their comment just seemed more like a clarification for anyone else reading, not someone actually taking my comment seriously.

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            Creating confusion for you maybe. Nobody else took my comment that seriously.

            The general view is one I have reached after reading hundreds of threads or more.

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              So then why reply to my comment with a hostile argument when there was already a thread in reply to mine which cleared up any possible confusion?

              You can’t read satire, got confused and replied without spending the time to even read the other reply saying the same shit you said.

              And you wanna blame satire for creating confusion.

              If u smell shit everywhere you go, check ur own shoe bud.

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                You are applying overly broad extrapolations, distorting the sense of my comments, and also imposing an inaccurate view that I expressed hostility.

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                  So leading with “the argument is sloppy” is a nice friendly way of opening a conversation?

                  Please tell me exactly what I’m broadly extrapolating or distorting here, because your comment makes broad accusations without actually talking specifics, while mine does exactly the opposite. If anything, ur the one extrapolating bs.

                  You’re the one that chose to make a useless comment in the first place, don’t bitch when you get called out for it.

                  You just literally don’t know how to accept/respond to satire, and when you realized you took satire seriously, instead of saying “oh okay” u got defensive and offended.

                  Grow tf up dude. Let satire exist. Read other replies before adding to meaningless drivel like you did.

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                    So leading with “the argument is sloppy” is a nice friendly way of opening a conversation?

                    I am rejecting your characterization that I have been hostile, which is also not supported by the text you quoted.

                    Your tone consistently has escalated toward one that is petty and oppositional.