To be fair I fucking hate the rules of intellectual decorum. It's just a shame that any potentially interesting ideas are lost behind the grandstanding rhetoric and unnecessarily frequent caps/bold/italics/abuse.
Perhaps to put it in less ridiculous terms - he takes his participation in the forum too seriously, like his post is a part of a great struggle against reaction, while not taking basic rules of intellectual decorum seriously enough, and combining it with the style of late 19th century political polemics.
"Rafiq stop being hyperbolic. It is very difficult to detach the content of your posts from how you write them, which is in the manner of a grand speech and often includes just abuse." I'm pretty sure Rafiq channels the spirit of Lenin railing about the Mensheviks after having a few too many bottles of vodka when he posts.
It's futile arguing with idiots like Rodrigo, they are either: a) trolls, OR b) informed only by online tankie nationalist bullshit sentiment, and haven't any clue about the real world and politics and people. Still, appreciate that your post in the NK poll thread absolutely ripped him to shreds, the idiot. Good read!
