I questioned two claims you made. One of your claims is highly subjective – that D’Anconia “picked on” Ambivalid. You offered up the following in support of that claim:
I pointed out that this seems like a weak example of “picked on.” But it’s true that one person’s wry observation may be another’s harassment; I don’t see any “picking,” but it’s not really possible to define concretely what “picking on” looks like at the borders of the expression, so I’ll assume that you and I simply have vastly different tolerances for what constitutes “picking on.”
But the second claim is susceptible to much more rigorous proof. This is your claim that D’Anconia “whined about capital gains taxes.” I have bolded the relevant section below to aid you in your recollection:
The only evidence you’ve offered here is some comment D’Anconia made about progressive tax rates.
This leads me to believe that you think the two are similar. As I explained, they’re not.
Do you now understand that progressive tax rates and capital gains tax are not the same thing?
Do you have some other example in which D’Anconia does whine, or even talk, about capital gains tax?
Or is it fair to say that this latter claim of yours was a mistake?