I believe we've already asked you to please not post deliberately inflammatory sarcasm like this. It's not part of the thoughtful and civil discussion we're trying to have.

Was I not responding to deliberately inflammatory sarcasm?

I usually ignore it, but if it's unacceptable to reply in turn then I'll happily take a ban.

Yes, it's unacceptable to reply in turn. When the purpose of the site is to support intellectual curiosity and discussion, it's never productive to make already-bad threads worse.

I actually came here to discuss tech, and meet like minded people. I think the politics ruins this site, but I don't seem to have the willpower to avoid being sucked into it. The the decision before to ban politics was a good one, but it was protested by highly political people.

Honestly, at this point I'll happily take a ban. The site has turned into just another time sink to argue politics for me. Thanks.