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Why do you think I am hostile? That is a product of projection; we perceive the world through the lens of the self, which distorts reality to fit the narrative we base our identity around.
I am "literally" marketing educational content, and if you can't figure out how that works, just go digging through my profile, I recommend the dingleburger post at a minimum. But the fact remains; this is an issue that has enough weight within your value system to comment. I agree with you, to a degree, because there are exceptions to all rules, but the fact is you got confrontational when someone puts up an innocent comment you misinterpreted because your "self" perceived the tone as if you said it to yourself.
I didn't presume you were hostile, just erratic. I seriously considered you were under some influence. I see now you just worded your reply poorly.
When someone says "I couldn't care less", and the immediate reply is proof or suggestion that they cared to some degree, this is usually taken as a challenge or denial to the fact that they couldn't care less. Especially when it's something easy to Not Do, such as commenting. This is because the phrase "I couldn't care less" is more often than not used as an idiom, not in a literal sense. And in this particular occasion, you just so happened to point at how they could, in fact, care less: by not even commenting.
I'll illustrate with a different example: A:"I couldn't care less what my ex does with their life" B: "Yet you cared enough to check their social media yesterday" ...so as you can see, B's reply directly suggests A actually does care to some degree.
Therefore, without any context to show appreciation for the reply or without any visual or voice cues (this is text after all) to show the tone of your reply, it's easy to presume you are trolling or not making any sense. The fact that you are coming up with this reply to someone who simply answered your question just adds another layer of confusion. Imagine asking someone to jump only to immediately say they shouldn't be jumping. Just confusing.
And that's also what the first commenter probably thought too, only they gracefully replied "non sequitur" as opposed to "dude what?" or "wtf?" which carry a similar sentiment and are just as applicable in this situation.
What?
So you were trolling all along. Well played
No, I'm playing an authentic, autobiographical character for educational purposes. I jist read all that and forgot what I was doing.
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.