You read the same way. 🤝
Probably a BitCoin thing. 
I'm usually pretty straightforward unless I feel like I'm being fucked with. You are no intellectual slouch, to put it mildly, for what that's worth.  I was misreading.  My personal life is coloring my perceptions at the moment—honest vivisection—the real bitcoin in-fighting on other platforms is doing no one in the culture any good at the moment even though there are a lot of good people bickering. I will try to do better