Irony alert. As irony seems now to be redundant, a) because most people are now too stupid to understand it, &/or b) because world events themselves are now post ironic, I think it wise to state here that the above paragraph is ironic, and I don't actually think that now, nor did I then, in fact to rejoice at death and maiming and misery is unforgivable. .
Irony, here written, is a rhetorical device to illustrate or argue the division between two competing points of view by overstating, ridiculing or misapplying one point of view to re-inforce another or opposite point of view. Sometimes the irony is obvious to all parties, as I hope here, but sometimes it is intended to be hidden, that one party doesn't even know his attacker is being ironic, though others around the attacker may well be aware and get the "joke". I write this paragraph to protect myself from the stupid or the unamused and complaining Zionist or world citizen who might find my line of rhetoric distasteful. It is meant to be. .
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