I don’t concern myself with peoples’ opinion of me overmuch, so if someone draws an incorrect (or fuck it, correct) conclusion about me from my posts, so be it. I’m fine being considered an idiot when I post something idiotic because 30 minutes later I’ll be on a different post saying something perhaps more profound.

But as much as I don’t care about being idiotic from time to time, it’s never my intent to make someone feel mocked or dismissed, and given that as you correctly point out the internet is full of pricks who are only too happy to act that way, and the inscrutable arc of thoughts that the image alone utterly failed to communicate, it’s perfectly reasonable to conclude that I was being a deliberate asshole. Hence the apology. Sorry you didn’t get a more serious response to your comment. I’d give one here, but I don’t really feel qualified to wade into Chinese politics.