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I'm not the other responder, but their assumption of hostility was most likely due to the glibness of your response. A single sentence, especially in text, leaves a great deal of room for misinterpretation. Almost no one is looking at your comments or posts by placing them in the context of your previous posts or comments. Most users will be looking at the title, some of the post text, and the text of some comments without ever even looking at the usernames. Thus, regardless of any reputation you feel you should have, they aren't seeing it. Add on how the response is phrased similarly to a snarky reddit debater or a 'gotcha,' and it was almost guaranteed to be interpreted as hostile.
Now, imagine how you might have interpreted this comment if my entire response to you had been:
cuz ya glib
Yea, the machines can't help themselves. And now more educational propaganda is created.
But I admire your capacity to deconstruct the subtext of the situation. This is where things get fun. I play an authentic, autobiographical character to market my educational (f)art project. This involves playing the fool. This involves baiting. This involves letting people decide their own Karma with the awareness that I'm always talking to an audience.
Y'all are playing the game of winning a conversation. I'm trying to get people in general to perceive n undo the karmic fetters that bind them to the existence-illusion complex. We are not the same.
Take your meds and get off the internet.
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