It was, I'm sorry. I just get really frustrated reading your responses to comments in threads where you are really active and appear to just ignore any comments that counter you with evidence.
Have you ever had a conversation with someone that always has to be right? Whenever they realize they are wrong, they don't even admit it and they just change the subject. It's tiresome and disrespectful to the other party and that's what selective responses come across as.
(a) There is a difference between simply not agreeing with people and "ignoring any comments that counter you with evidence".
(b) The argument I had on this thread was much narrower than the one people seemed to want to have. I had something negative to say about FFTF. People on the thread want to argue about how bad TPP is. I'm not going to respond to "evidence" against arguments I didn't make.
(c) The biggest reason I didn't respond to comments on this thread was that I wasn't home for most of yesterday. Sorry, I don't feel obligated to cancel plans to address comments on threads.
This comment, sadly buried lower in the thread, does a much better job of making my argument than I did: