A small rant: "I was obviously being sarcastic" and "You totally missed my deadpan humor"

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I am really, really, really sick and tired of people saying things that join the ambient environment full of vileness and stupidity and then getting hurt when they're taken as more vile, stupid people rather than the witty bon vivants they feel they obviously are. It's not that text is innately incapable of conveying deadpan humor. It's that we live in a fucking crazy world, with much of the craziness deliberately encouraged by people who fancy themselves using others' gullibility for evil ends. It simply is very difficult to distinguish yourself from the sincerely deluded, the calculatedly anti-immoral, and the just plain deranged by anything like the extremity of your position. It's an extreme time.

So please, give it up. You're not Jonathan Swift. Nor are you Hunter S. Thompson. Be funny some other way.