Reply #133: If that's your best answer, then

[Ron Mexico]

the best medicine seems to be putting you on "ignore," whether you're capable of understanding sarcasm or not. It should be obvious that I didn't actually get a laugh or anything close to it out of what you said, and my hope is that your post was sarcasm in kind, but since you haven't been right about anything concerning me yet I have no idea what to think.

I read this "best medicine" post of yours, started to write a response, and decided to give it a night's thought - just in case I was overreacting. After a night's thought, I'm surprised that I was as restrained as I was yesterday. The last time I saw anyone like you on the Internet was when perusing the freeper site.

Your "I know you don't care about pain and early death" was so baseless, so uninformed and so stupid that the first thing it reminded me of was the freepers. I show some reservations about a Canadian system that has demonstrable problems (while still maintaining that we should help the poor!), and to you that somehow means I don't care about pain and early death. That's in no way dissimilar to the freepers accusing us of hating America and wanting soldiers to die just because we show some reservations about the war. It's in no way dissimilar to freepers accusing us of being pinko commies because we'd rather see tax money spent on a few social programs than returned to gazillionaires. It's in no way dissimilar to freepers accusing us of tin hat X-files bullshit for wondering about the fairness of elections that didn't go our way.

When I called you on your reactionary bullshit, you insult me with a non-apology and an even dumber definition of "fair exchange" - as if you could have possibly been even partially right about an astonighingly stupid and unwarranted assumption which you had no business making. Like anyone else with more than five minutes' experience on Internet message boards, I've dealt with stupidity and ignorance before, but the brand you throw around is heavily seasoned with the sort of arrogance that makes me want to vomit. No, laughter isn't the best medicine in your case - the best medicine is to make sure I don't read any more of your posts while hoping that my DU experience shows you continuing to be the exception rather than the rule around here. Have a nice life.