Now that you have told me you have PTSD, I believe you. I did not believe you had PTSD when your choice of action was deliberately and knowingly provoking me, because you didn’t tell anyone you were upset, and nobody here is a mind reader.

Now, it’s clear that I’m being triggered by seeing your memes, and you’re being triggered by me pointing out that you’re promoting an idealized view of dictatorships. So maybe the correct path to de-escalation is to stop deliberately antagonizing me, and then neither of us will be panicking or having flashbacks to the rape of our wives.