Fascinating is one of the cuntiest words.
Responding to hatemail? A poorly envisioned and understood argument? Someone who is "cooking" but with gunpowder on a propane grill?
It's "fascinating." Followed by a deft "surely" to drive the knife home.
Fascinated by the implications of this conclusion you've drawn. Surely this hasn't been destructive to specifically your cause in the past... [cites 12 discrete instances with sources attached where is has been destructive specifically to that cause]
Ohhhhhh that sucks so hard for you, don't it? Makes you clench your teeth and draw a shallow breath through them for a limply worded retort borne on sour emotion and chagrin.
Oof. God. That's not a good look, but it's absolutely fascinating.
I'm not usually one for schadenfreude, but hitting them with that "fascinating" gets me wet like a slip'n'slide.