Yeah, or having exposed the contradictions in someone else's argument; but whatever.

It's not as if I haven't, at several points in this thread, openly invited people to back their arguments up by leading me to the sources that have given them their conclusions on the matter.

I wouldn't say I am pleased. I am content at having presented my own arguments and having not had them refuted. And for the record, I never at any point in this thread suggested its intention was to attack the very weak argument that socialism is theoretically inept and empirically disproven. But when such arguments crop up, as they did here, here, here and here (not including the odd clever-dick snide remark directed at me), I'll happily defend the contrary.