Normally I disagree with the invocation of Scumbag Steve, but you, sir, are doing it right.

After reading the article on Crowdturfing [1], I can no longer assume that everyone posting here is acting in good faith.

[1] http://sdt.bz/61989

...Really? Please don't yell - it's not conductive to making your point.

I said "ridiculous" because it was a narrow, misinformed comment that failed to properly encapsulate the entire subject at hand. It wasn't representative of what's really going on in the political theater between Russia and the United States right now, e.g. no consideration of Russia's motives, positive impact of the NSA, how Russia would be hypocritical to endorse press freedom and citizen privacy, etc. etc. etc.

In fact, nothing about his comment was obvious - if you continue on through the thread, you can clearly see how my rebuttal dissects the entire view that Russia "gets" anything very sufficiently.

When you said "you're ridiculous" you attacked the poster rather than the opinion, which made that part of your comment ad-hominem. That statement, juxtaposed with your complaint immediately following about being subject to the same sort of attack was indeed rather humorous.

You defend your own ad hominems with more ad hominems? How do you know that I am misinformed? I've read everything that I can get my hands on regarding this subject.

Then you go on to confuse the sentiments of one Russian for the policies of an entire nation?

Who's being ridiculous here?