"The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That’s their whole entire function."
This says it all...add the courts (obviously part of the political class, though)...to complete the trifecta. As a lawyer I know there's no such thing as fucking justice either. Love your work!
Caitlin, This is another great article! You have told it like it is, and that shocks people either to take the truth seriously, or jump as far away as they can. A few years ago, when I first found your articles, I was so very excited to resonate with your wisdom and insight. At the time I was sincerely hoping that my successful sister, who received a full 4 year scholarship to do her doctorate at American U, just might grasp the depth, meaning and brilliance of your writings. I was very disheartened, that she was very critical. I kept trying to show her a more open portal of true facts, but with each article I sent, she stood by her reserved fear of stubborn-ness which she presented harshly. That was the end of that--in order to stay within each other's superficial-graces. I am most grateful that over the last two years, I have learned to avoid all of the people like my sister, while cultivating a preserved-covenant to honor those, like yourself, who sacrifice their lives, to share the truth. Those, like my dear sister, who have let themselves be cursed by the system that groomed them, unknowingly let gravity take them away from the Light within. . . Thank You and Bless You Caitlin.
The truth about Moringa. You would have to eat the equivalent of five cups of leaves to get the same benefit as eating a cup of spinach. It is not a Superfood and yet the Supplement Industry promotes it as such. Remember folks, the Supplement Industry is Big Pharma — it's the other side of the coin the oligarchs own. And get this, it's unregulated so you have no clue what you're really getting.
Well, the cat has started to claw its way out of the bag and might be hard to control from here on: Canada has decided, against Zelensky's wishes - because he isn't, after all, Canada's prime minister - yeah, that Zelensky who got perhaps a billion bucks from somewhere and decided Minsk I and II could go fly a kite, Canada has decided to release those essential turbines so that Germany and Western Europe won't have to starve and freeze in the dark this Fall and Winter. Good decision. May there be more like that. The cat has developed some muscle.
If people can’t agree on what the definition of a word means, then there is no argument ever. Because in order to disagree, there must first be an agreement. Otherwise, if there is no common agreement about what a word means, its just people talking over each other and sometimes getting emotional about two entirely different things, not the same thing.
Then you should use the definitions of the person you're approaching to discuss, not try to make them use your definition. That would be stupid and obnoxious. Anyway socialists are using the correct definition and rightists are using the wrong definition, since they invented the word and they've been using it in the same way continuously since the 1800s. This "capitalism means free trade" nonsense it just something libertarians and ancaps started saying a few years ago. I wrote a Twitter thread on this a while back: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1452733006649589760
Good point, Caitlin. I was thinking the same thing before I read you comment. Those who seek to manipulate you and control you will require you use their definition of something. The cooptation of language is crucial to ideologues and that includes redefinition. Look how bastardized and perverted the characterization "Liberal" has become, for example.
“I’m a worker who enjoys being exploited.“ Because I consented to it and have a contract. I do X and get X. I don’t know how Marx defined exploited, but I don’t see mutual consent as exploitation..
OK Mr. Moneybags, I'll give you the condensed version. Employer: Do X for me and I'll give you one dollar. Employee: Sounds good, I'll do it. Employer: Hey, I can sell this X for TWO dollars. Employee: Hey! Wait a minute! I made that X, and only got paid ONE dollar! I've been exploited! Employer: Well, you're "free" to go work for someone else then!
Too funny. Per the Great Resignation, many have said fuck it and aren't going to work somewhere else and what is your reaction since you are a stand in for the Supreme Court here, i.e. Kavanaugh and Thomas and Roberts and Alito and Gorsuch and Barrett? It's to threaten to force those people to work the myriad of shit jobs that don't pay a livable wage. Don't think this isn't coming folks because it is. Forced labor is next on the docket when the Christian Fascists seize total power. Forced labor camps for anyone who is "woke" initially and ultimately for anyone who isn't ardent enough in displaying their Christian Fascism.
I surely hope you have dumbed it down to meaninglessness. The employer had to do something to make it worth hiring in the first place. Figuring out what that something is worth is the hard part.
That would be like two different people speaking different languages and expecting one side to speak the language of the other. Rightists speak a different language then leftists when it comes to words like capitalism and until there is an agreed upon definition that both sides can come to terms with there won’t be any meaningful arguments.
No that's dumb. The fact that rightists decided to change the definition of the word a few years ago because they couldn't address leftist arguments does not legitimize their coming up to leftists and demanding that they use the new, wrong definition. If you refuse to use the correct definition of the word then you can still address the arguments using other words. This is incredibly obvious and shouldn't need to be explained.
It’s a trap. Rather than arguing about the definition of “woman”, just use the term “person born as a biological female”. Rather than arguing of “racism”, use the term prejudice or bigotry. Rather than using “CRT”, talk about teaching identity politics in schools. Unless all you want to do is argue with people on Twitter, then it is certainly easier to just argue about whether somebody is using a word I a way you don’t approve.
I feel like arguing over semantics is a trap. Rather than discussing an idea or policy, one side just argues about definitions. For example, the right is pushing to ban CRT in schools. In response, the left argues that CRT is actually just a college level framing of systemic racism in the justice system. Or the left arguing for the use of preferred pronouns and the right asking them to define what a woman is. If a person actually cares about a policy, it is the policy that matters and not the words used in the policy.
Speaking the same language is absolutely essential for communication. The left and the right do not speak the same language on cultural issues or economic ones.
Well yea, arguments can be parsed into smaller concepts and that helps communication.
I do understand how words can be conceptually extended , corrupted or even created to facilitate propaganda. Case in point, CDC formal definition of vaccine was altered during covid to allow for the marketing of MRNA shots as a vaccine. When the truth is, that they aren’t vaccines.
ola Slavic proverb...whoever digs a pit under others, falls into it himself...translation: they (elitists) are digging a pit for American citizens, but they will fall into it themselves.....which we can see through history!...
The US centered empire has always marginalized the left. That they tolerate even the extreme right is clear from the number of right-wing leaders and dictators they have supported or installed. That should cause the right to pause and consider.
That said I do not see a political solution. We are divided and conquered.
We can raise our own vibrations. When low frequencies come into contact with higher ones they typically try to resonate and change, rising higher. The way is unconditional love.
My 2 cents: we are the top predator species on the planet. The physical ability to be violent, exploit and dominate--and the intellectual ability to do the same with words and numbers have coalesced into Institutionalized Predation by cultures designed to enforce Social Dominance Hierarchies. Both of these are programmed organically with limited flexibility. We refuse to acknowledge this subconscious primal pattern, fight over the territorial and moral high ground, and do not explore more balanced, informed, conscientious
systems of Institutionalized Altruism to protect social, psychological and ecological interdependent survival. (Ultimately, the egos of the alphas mobilize weapons and machines to concentrate wealth at the expense of the "expendable " earth and all others.)
*does anyone know how to organize a healthy group of visionaries for Wholesome Planning (theory and practice)?
This explains everything that is going wrong in the world: "The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That's their whole entire function."
The solution? We the unwashed masses need to get our grubby little mitts on the true levers of power--and to hell with the entire political/media class! #PowerToThePeople
Hi Caitlin, I just did a video last week on this logical fallacy. It’s the most pervasive one to me in driving divide. Keep up the good work! Sorry for double comments. The original disappeared :-(
Careful with the "Capitalism" v "Corporatism" rant. While your point is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, why squabble about semantics when we are being raped and pillaged of resources and dignity, the problem lies in the lack of options and concentrated supply chains, which has led to these shortages. One company has such an impact that if they go down, there is a baby formula shortage for the ENTIRE COUNTRY!? This is more the point to be made, which has at it's source, greed. Offshoring jobs so the products can be made cheaper? Greed. Planned obsolescence? Greed.
This is the heart and soul of the problem, and that is the CORPORATE edge to our company overlords. Because the consumer is not the boss, but the investor. The consumer has been relegated to a STATISTIC, or dehumanized. This dehumanization has spread into our communities and societies and crumbled the bonds which hold us together.
Capitalism, on it's face, is not the enemy, it's what created our middle class, but the concentration of power, the corporate merger, and expansion of corporations to represent an entire industry has put us in the position we see ourselves in today. Are there solutions? Of course. BE THE REASON. You got grandmas formula recipe? Now's the time. You know how to manufacture? Put your hat in the ring.
It is time for people to remember they WERE the mom and pop shops that have been displaced by mega corporate interested.
Just because you choose to serve the community, and not the world, does not mean you deserve to be relegated to the dustbins of history.
But it takes a community to support local for this to happen. That is how a brand grows naturally, without marketing telling us it is so.
Love the article, would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Caitlin!
"we're at the point where consent for this expansion has been so widely manufactured that they don't even need to be sly about it. They can just say "Yeah well that hurts our government's propaganda war against Russia, so we can't have that." This is huge."
I grew up in the late 60s-80s in the US. We were constantly told that what we see now daily in US gov't statements and the MSM US news is what the dangerous commies in the USSR do. The irony would be funny if it were not so serious.
So true! Part of the problem is people believe some misapprehensions from Adam Smith and Karl Marx. As an unschooled student of money I have not had them hammered into my head. Henry George was far more popular and had a far greater influence on economic thought than Marx, sold more books than the bible for ten years running. Schools and media do their best to make sure we never heard of him and don't know that the progressive populists of the late 19th century had a much better grasp of what capitalism was and the flaw in Marx's definition. At the risk of word-diddling, it was simple; (capital = money) + (ism = system) = capitalism = money system. It was the unjust and usurious bank credit-money system that they all wanted to change and why it was at the top of all their platforms. They lost, but we can't afford to. The money is power embodied in law therefore can change and should be a public power, not a private one. As Henry George put it, "Money is the government's responsibility."
You know the means of production isn’t the end all be all. Most people are not familiar with the means of distribution. Which by the way is how retail giants could push around producers to cut prices and eventually relocate to a lower cost of production areas. So here we have companies that own the means of distribution dictating what producers do.
I make the distinctions between needs and want using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs specifically the two bottom layers of the pyramid which are basic needs (physiological and safety).
Right, buyers and sellers. When something is bought with the intent to sell, there is often but not always a value added in order de-commodify what is being sold. As an example, house flippers (speculators) where known to do home improvements and renovations in order to markup the house price. Buy low sell high, or in some cases buy high and sell higher. The problem is there is only so much value that can be added and price increases before the houses become unaffordable and buyers lack “the means of consumption” .this leads to buyers rejecting the purchase of homes which then leads to prices coming down. This simplistic explanation leaves out monetary tinkering by the FED or the government.
Without common, agreed to definitions of what words mean, communication and rational argument is impossible. Regarding capitalism and corporatism, does Caitlin think there is no difference between a sole proprietor food truck and McDonalds?
Both will clog your arteries and give you diabetes and liver failure because of too much salt, fat and sugar. Make your own, that way you can control what's in it.
Proving only that if all you look for is evidence backing your own point of view (sameness), then you will never see how they are different. It's called confirmation bias.
Eating out too much will make you unhealthy and that includes most food trucks. Yes, McDonalds is the worst of that by far but eating out is less healthy than preparing it yourself so long as you prepare well-balanced meals with a moderation of fat, salt and sugar.
Right. My original comment was satire. You took it literally. I'm not saying you're a psychopath, but psychopaths have a difficult time with subtle sarcasm, and it really shows with psychopaths online.
"The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That’s their whole entire function."
This says it all...add the courts (obviously part of the political class, though)...to complete the trifecta. As a lawyer I know there's no such thing as fucking justice either. Love your work!
Caitlin, This is another great article! You have told it like it is, and that shocks people either to take the truth seriously, or jump as far away as they can. A few years ago, when I first found your articles, I was so very excited to resonate with your wisdom and insight. At the time I was sincerely hoping that my successful sister, who received a full 4 year scholarship to do her doctorate at American U, just might grasp the depth, meaning and brilliance of your writings. I was very disheartened, that she was very critical. I kept trying to show her a more open portal of true facts, but with each article I sent, she stood by her reserved fear of stubborn-ness which she presented harshly. That was the end of that--in order to stay within each other's superficial-graces. I am most grateful that over the last two years, I have learned to avoid all of the people like my sister, while cultivating a preserved-covenant to honor those, like yourself, who sacrifice their lives, to share the truth. Those, like my dear sister, who have let themselves be cursed by the system that groomed them, unknowingly let gravity take them away from the Light within. . . Thank You and Bless You Caitlin.
The truth about Moringa. You would have to eat the equivalent of five cups of leaves to get the same benefit as eating a cup of spinach. It is not a Superfood and yet the Supplement Industry promotes it as such. Remember folks, the Supplement Industry is Big Pharma — it's the other side of the coin the oligarchs own. And get this, it's unregulated so you have no clue what you're really getting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cY02mOoie0
Well, the cat has started to claw its way out of the bag and might be hard to control from here on: Canada has decided, against Zelensky's wishes - because he isn't, after all, Canada's prime minister - yeah, that Zelensky who got perhaps a billion bucks from somewhere and decided Minsk I and II could go fly a kite, Canada has decided to release those essential turbines so that Germany and Western Europe won't have to starve and freeze in the dark this Fall and Winter. Good decision. May there be more like that. The cat has developed some muscle.
War is a racket.
I believe Smedley Butler said that, and he wouldn't get an argument from me.
What's your definition of war? What's your definition of racket?
If people can’t agree on what the definition of a word means, then there is no argument ever. Because in order to disagree, there must first be an agreement. Otherwise, if there is no common agreement about what a word means, its just people talking over each other and sometimes getting emotional about two entirely different things, not the same thing.
Then you should use the definitions of the person you're approaching to discuss, not try to make them use your definition. That would be stupid and obnoxious. Anyway socialists are using the correct definition and rightists are using the wrong definition, since they invented the word and they've been using it in the same way continuously since the 1800s. This "capitalism means free trade" nonsense it just something libertarians and ancaps started saying a few years ago. I wrote a Twitter thread on this a while back: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1452733006649589760
Good point, Caitlin. I was thinking the same thing before I read you comment. Those who seek to manipulate you and control you will require you use their definition of something. The cooptation of language is crucial to ideologues and that includes redefinition. Look how bastardized and perverted the characterization "Liberal" has become, for example.
chewing vocabulary, until now it only led to warfare......
“I’m a worker who enjoys being exploited.“ Because I consented to it and have a contract. I do X and get X. I don’t know how Marx defined exploited, but I don’t see mutual consent as exploitation..
Sounds like you need to go and read some Marx, then.
I don’t have tome I’m too busy spending the money I make being exploited. My new washer should be shipped any day now.
OK Mr. Moneybags, I'll give you the condensed version. Employer: Do X for me and I'll give you one dollar. Employee: Sounds good, I'll do it. Employer: Hey, I can sell this X for TWO dollars. Employee: Hey! Wait a minute! I made that X, and only got paid ONE dollar! I've been exploited! Employer: Well, you're "free" to go work for someone else then!
Too funny. Per the Great Resignation, many have said fuck it and aren't going to work somewhere else and what is your reaction since you are a stand in for the Supreme Court here, i.e. Kavanaugh and Thomas and Roberts and Alito and Gorsuch and Barrett? It's to threaten to force those people to work the myriad of shit jobs that don't pay a livable wage. Don't think this isn't coming folks because it is. Forced labor is next on the docket when the Christian Fascists seize total power. Forced labor camps for anyone who is "woke" initially and ultimately for anyone who isn't ardent enough in displaying their Christian Fascism.
So Employer has to sell X for one dollar too then?
I surely hope you have dumbed it down to meaninglessness. The employer had to do something to make it worth hiring in the first place. Figuring out what that something is worth is the hard part.
My new washer should be coming soon.
That would be like two different people speaking different languages and expecting one side to speak the language of the other. Rightists speak a different language then leftists when it comes to words like capitalism and until there is an agreed upon definition that both sides can come to terms with there won’t be any meaningful arguments.
No that's dumb. The fact that rightists decided to change the definition of the word a few years ago because they couldn't address leftist arguments does not legitimize their coming up to leftists and demanding that they use the new, wrong definition. If you refuse to use the correct definition of the word then you can still address the arguments using other words. This is incredibly obvious and shouldn't need to be explained.
It’s not dumb.
It’s a trap. Rather than arguing about the definition of “woman”, just use the term “person born as a biological female”. Rather than arguing of “racism”, use the term prejudice or bigotry. Rather than using “CRT”, talk about teaching identity politics in schools. Unless all you want to do is argue with people on Twitter, then it is certainly easier to just argue about whether somebody is using a word I a way you don’t approve.
I feel like arguing over semantics is a trap. Rather than discussing an idea or policy, one side just argues about definitions. For example, the right is pushing to ban CRT in schools. In response, the left argues that CRT is actually just a college level framing of systemic racism in the justice system. Or the left arguing for the use of preferred pronouns and the right asking them to define what a woman is. If a person actually cares about a policy, it is the policy that matters and not the words used in the policy.
Good point.
I'm Irish. I was born arguing. CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube. Anyone says different, step-up or step-back!
Ha! The world of acronyms. So many, so little time.
Speaking the same language is absolutely essential for communication. The left and the right do not speak the same language on cultural issues or economic ones.
Well yea, arguments can be parsed into smaller concepts and that helps communication.
I do understand how words can be conceptually extended , corrupted or even created to facilitate propaganda. Case in point, CDC formal definition of vaccine was altered during covid to allow for the marketing of MRNA shots as a vaccine. When the truth is, that they aren’t vaccines.
Exactly. If two are to discuss mathematics they first have to agree 2 + 2 = 4.
In an identity politics world 2+2= 9,7,3,5 and sometimes 4
Exactly. Many people for example don't realize that there are hundreds of definitions of the word "is."
ola Slavic proverb...whoever digs a pit under others, falls into it himself...translation: they (elitists) are digging a pit for American citizens, but they will fall into it themselves.....which we can see through history!...
The US centered empire has always marginalized the left. That they tolerate even the extreme right is clear from the number of right-wing leaders and dictators they have supported or installed. That should cause the right to pause and consider.
That said I do not see a political solution. We are divided and conquered.
We can raise our own vibrations. When low frequencies come into contact with higher ones they typically try to resonate and change, rising higher. The way is unconditional love.
My 2 cents: we are the top predator species on the planet. The physical ability to be violent, exploit and dominate--and the intellectual ability to do the same with words and numbers have coalesced into Institutionalized Predation by cultures designed to enforce Social Dominance Hierarchies. Both of these are programmed organically with limited flexibility. We refuse to acknowledge this subconscious primal pattern, fight over the territorial and moral high ground, and do not explore more balanced, informed, conscientious
systems of Institutionalized Altruism to protect social, psychological and ecological interdependent survival. (Ultimately, the egos of the alphas mobilize weapons and machines to concentrate wealth at the expense of the "expendable " earth and all others.)
*does anyone know how to organize a healthy group of visionaries for Wholesome Planning (theory and practice)?
Transcendental enlightenment.
This explains everything that is going wrong in the world: "The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That's their whole entire function."
The solution? We the unwashed masses need to get our grubby little mitts on the true levers of power--and to hell with the entire political/media class! #PowerToThePeople
George thanks you again..."The People Don't Know: The American Press and the Cold War" (1949) by George Seldes
https://archive.org/details/ThePeopleDontKnow/page/n9/mode/2up
Caitlin, do you believe in private property ownership? Or is that too exploitive for you a la your belief in the definition of "capitalism"?
I am attempting to figure out which system you believe is superior to the current USSA one.
Hi Caitlin, I just did a video last week on this logical fallacy. It’s the most pervasive one to me in driving divide. Keep up the good work! Sorry for double comments. The original disappeared :-(
https://rumble.com/v1bf1f7-dissect-fallacy-in-focus-false-dichotomy-false-dilemma-18-minutes.html
Careful with the "Capitalism" v "Corporatism" rant. While your point is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, why squabble about semantics when we are being raped and pillaged of resources and dignity, the problem lies in the lack of options and concentrated supply chains, which has led to these shortages. One company has such an impact that if they go down, there is a baby formula shortage for the ENTIRE COUNTRY!? This is more the point to be made, which has at it's source, greed. Offshoring jobs so the products can be made cheaper? Greed. Planned obsolescence? Greed.
This is the heart and soul of the problem, and that is the CORPORATE edge to our company overlords. Because the consumer is not the boss, but the investor. The consumer has been relegated to a STATISTIC, or dehumanized. This dehumanization has spread into our communities and societies and crumbled the bonds which hold us together.
Capitalism, on it's face, is not the enemy, it's what created our middle class, but the concentration of power, the corporate merger, and expansion of corporations to represent an entire industry has put us in the position we see ourselves in today. Are there solutions? Of course. BE THE REASON. You got grandmas formula recipe? Now's the time. You know how to manufacture? Put your hat in the ring.
It is time for people to remember they WERE the mom and pop shops that have been displaced by mega corporate interested.
Just because you choose to serve the community, and not the world, does not mean you deserve to be relegated to the dustbins of history.
But it takes a community to support local for this to happen. That is how a brand grows naturally, without marketing telling us it is so.
Love the article, would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Caitlin!
"we're at the point where consent for this expansion has been so widely manufactured that they don't even need to be sly about it. They can just say "Yeah well that hurts our government's propaganda war against Russia, so we can't have that." This is huge."
I grew up in the late 60s-80s in the US. We were constantly told that what we see now daily in US gov't statements and the MSM US news is what the dangerous commies in the USSR do. The irony would be funny if it were not so serious.
So true! Part of the problem is people believe some misapprehensions from Adam Smith and Karl Marx. As an unschooled student of money I have not had them hammered into my head. Henry George was far more popular and had a far greater influence on economic thought than Marx, sold more books than the bible for ten years running. Schools and media do their best to make sure we never heard of him and don't know that the progressive populists of the late 19th century had a much better grasp of what capitalism was and the flaw in Marx's definition. At the risk of word-diddling, it was simple; (capital = money) + (ism = system) = capitalism = money system. It was the unjust and usurious bank credit-money system that they all wanted to change and why it was at the top of all their platforms. They lost, but we can't afford to. The money is power embodied in law therefore can change and should be a public power, not a private one. As Henry George put it, "Money is the government's responsibility."
You know the means of production isn’t the end all be all. Most people are not familiar with the means of distribution. Which by the way is how retail giants could push around producers to cut prices and eventually relocate to a lower cost of production areas. So here we have companies that own the means of distribution dictating what producers do.
How about the “means of consumption?” Someone has to buy for someone to sell.
How is a “need” different than a “want”? Should all “needs” be satisfied before any “wants “?
Who decides?
I make the distinctions between needs and want using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs specifically the two bottom layers of the pyramid which are basic needs (physiological and safety).
Great theory, but in practice not so helpful
What do mean?
Right, buyers and sellers. When something is bought with the intent to sell, there is often but not always a value added in order de-commodify what is being sold. As an example, house flippers (speculators) where known to do home improvements and renovations in order to markup the house price. Buy low sell high, or in some cases buy high and sell higher. The problem is there is only so much value that can be added and price increases before the houses become unaffordable and buyers lack “the means of consumption” .this leads to buyers rejecting the purchase of homes which then leads to prices coming down. This simplistic explanation leaves out monetary tinkering by the FED or the government.
Without common, agreed to definitions of what words mean, communication and rational argument is impossible. Regarding capitalism and corporatism, does Caitlin think there is no difference between a sole proprietor food truck and McDonalds?
Both will clog your arteries and give you diabetes and liver failure because of too much salt, fat and sugar. Make your own, that way you can control what's in it.
Proving only that if all you look for is evidence backing your own point of view (sameness), then you will never see how they are different. It's called confirmation bias.
Eating out too much will make you unhealthy and that includes most food trucks. Yes, McDonalds is the worst of that by far but eating out is less healthy than preparing it yourself so long as you prepare well-balanced meals with a moderation of fat, salt and sugar.
Once again avoiding the important issues of size and personal accountability by diverting attention to what was never an issue under debate at all.
Right. My original comment was satire. You took it literally. I'm not saying you're a psychopath, but psychopaths have a difficult time with subtle sarcasm, and it really shows with psychopaths online.