Actually it was more ridicule of you; I realize you didn't like my tone but I didn't like yours as well, normally I wouldn't have replied but character is situational and I'm in a bad enough mood the last week to respond. I believe the phrase tit for tat may apply here.
>insignificant matters of syntax
I think use of it's instead of its is grammatical not syntactical, but I may be wrong on that.
>a sign that you're illiterate
I never said you were illiterate, I implied that you did not seem to know certain things and used the conceit that you were a non-native speaker of the language and that this was the cause of you not knowing these things. I could have also attacked your moral character, as you started in with me on.
>judging it by the blurb... the thing that goes on the cover; you know, judging a book by its cover.
As I understand blurb it means "a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes." I just saw the text on the website you linked to describing the book, I was unaware the same text was on the cover - if it is - but I guess if the book tells me it is a book about vampires I will judge the book to be about vampires until I open it up and read it is about the psychology of people who actually believe vampires exist. Blurbs exist to tell you what a book is about, you seem to think that this blurb has done a bad job doing that for me and it is somehow my fault for pointing it out.
Why don't you do just send an email to them and tell them "hey fix your blurb" since you have the knowledge of what the book is actually about, and you know that I took it badly, and you evidently are aware of what the trends are in American Politics that people might assume those phrases were about.
>If you're so concerned about lack of knowledge, why don't you just read the book? It's about eight bucks on Kindle,
Yeah, despite you being the best ever possible salesperson for the book, what with your attacking me for pointing out a bit of questionable marketing, I'm not paying to read a book that seems to be marketed to people I am ideologically opposed to, especially when I point out the dodgy marketing somebody on HN pops up and starts lecturing me about the US PATRIOT ACT (sic), I mean come on, those were some pretty dog-whistely terms there, and you could have gone with something like "well I understand your concern but it's really not like that, you should give it a try because it shows how even the best of intentions can get you bogged down with bureaucracy" but instead it's all you're stupid and bad and then finally it's buy the book it will make you a better person?
>well probably you'll keep the smugness
you really seem to very concerned about smugness, in your first post you went into "and with even more smug self-importance" and now again with the smugness - I don't really know what more to say about it other than when I read your first attack based on my pointing out problems in the blurb, and your second attack here based on my retaliation, and your about which has the following "In the current harsh/repressive political climate, you can be accosted for publicly engaging a wrongthinker." for communicating with you too much I have to say... I just don't think I'm that smug.