Part of the problem I have with this form of interaction is that every comment exists in isolation. There’s no identity behind them. If we knew you, and were familiar with your posting history and thoughts, we’d probably pick the sarcasm straight away, but without actually going and checking, and who has the time to do that for every comment, we can only take the words in front of us at face value.

I generally find it easier to assume someone is joking when making such comment on Lemmy than on Reddit, which has, let’s call it a broader audience, but we can’t know for sure, and there’s a lot of looneys or there that do genuinely believe such idiocy.

As such, subtle sarcasm can be misinterpreted as a genuine opinion. In those cases, it’s better to make the sarcasm as unsubtle as possible. The /s is a bit crude, but there’s plenty of creative ways to express it.

Unfortunately, yea there are people that are that way. A recently public scandal, Christian music singer, Michael Tait has been accused of sexually assaulting under age boys for years. His statements were more verbose but very similar to what you said.