And I honestly don't see how you're taking it as being flamebait. Could you point out why it comes across that way? (It's been flagged, so I assume that you weren't the only one who read it that way...)

You rate-limited me, and bumping against that from time to time has been a good reminder to not flame people. I have been trying to watch both my words and my attitude when posting. As I said, I wasn't trying for flamebait here - more for a bit of a joke. (Yeah, I know, I know, guidelines on that too...)

It read like politically charged snark to me. The thing is, I can pretty well guarantee you that if one of us is taking it that way, probably lots of us are.

The cure for such misunderstanding is to add enough information to disambiguate your intent (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Thanks for listening!