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I can see you don't wish to grace me with a reply. And I will accept that.

Going forward, I will give you some friendly advice, because I suspect you need it.

If you want to make an insulting statement that a post is "ridiculous", you should either explain in the response to a post in which you characterize a statement as "ridiculous", or when asked by the person you intentionally or unintentionally insult for clarification, defend your assertion.

This is known as "rational discourse".

If you don't do one, and outright refuse to do the other, you may come across to people as one of the following:

Someone who is ignorant of an issue.

Someone who does not have appropriate grasp of issues under discussion.

Someone who suffers from poor communication skills.

Someone who is intellectually incapable or emotionally stunted which renders them unable to engage rational discourse and simply lashes out at others when the mood suits them.

Someone who is an abject asshole and enjoys insulting people.

Someone who is simply a troll and wishes to gratify himself or herself by making inflammatory posts to introduce anger and inhibit discussion of issues instead of engaging in polite or rational discourse.

I don't know what category you might fall into, and I am not saying you fall into any of them because you have not deigned to respond in a rational way other than continual insults. And this is not the first time I have noticed it in your posts.

But having been a paying member here for many years, I know many people feel the same way I described above about people who have responded to a polite and rational query for an explanation as you did.

Again, all in the form of "Friendly advice" to someone who is an ostensible conservative on what is generally a conservative forum, where the give and take of ideas in the form of rational and polite discourse is encouraged, as contrasted with the way that the Left engages in discourse, which is neither rational nor polite.

And in case you think I am saying this to you in the form of a lecture rather than "rational discourse" about a specific issue, I will readily acknowledge your skill of perception, because I am layering it on pretty thickly since you don't leave any option by your refusal to stand by and explain your insulting posts.