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Sarcasm has nothing to do with bad faith. Posting comments in support of the Constitution costs karma half the time these days. And for virtue signalling, we sure had it pretty good. It would be nice if our society could go back to virtue signalling instead of vice signalling.
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It's not plain sarcasm to purposefully misinform somebody asking a legitimate question. They asked for a definition, not your opinion. If you consider your parent comment "supporting the Constitution" maybe you should evaluate whether that was effectively communicated.

A 2 second Google search, GPT2, or reading the article before commenting could have answered their question. It's rude to readers of this site to litter the board with lazy questions like that.

"Misinform" ? You do realize we're supposed to be like humans talking, and not robots exchanging PDUs, right?

If that's your excuse to respond with a useless charged non-sequitor, whatever works for you.

Listen, nobody likes the whoosh but you'd do better treating it as an opportunity for growth.

You're right, I'll leave the defense of the constitution to you. o7

Please don't.

What a toxic response.

There's nothing in the reply that suggests sarcasm. How do you expect people who don't already know the answer, to identify the response as sarcasm?

Context - the sibling comments, the things I said afterwards, and that the answer is easily searchable.

IMO the toxicity here is from the other commenter insisting on taking what I said literally, and then digging in and fortifying that demand rather than just taking a step back.




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