Even on a pure level of instrumental rationality, calmly pointing out the above quote and linking to it and asking if say I agree or not, would make the thing look much worse

I didn't strictly speaking make that comment to persuade anyone, I'm just making small talk. Who'd take some guy's esoteric politics as a matter of actual life and death when we can have an AI?

I get it you really really hate Moldbug

You are WRONG! I sneer at him a bit, as many tend to when they find that people much smarter than themselves are kind of fucked in the head. I don't consider him a force for evil. I just clarify that in some cases I value politeness more than I do free speech if, and only if, said free speech is in a natural, all too human language. Nowhere have I suggested that weighing evil acts is inappropriate - say, when you clearly see how to apply math - otherwise I would've promptly freaked out back at the dust specks question.

haven't yet done the calculations about how many lives changing Norway's government would be worth, but that I suspect considering there are few better alternatives if any

I believe that it's exactly what he's admitting to himself - Norway is a kickass place to live in! - , and that although he might be serious about "Eurocommunism" as a potential engine of collapse, he's not serious serious. In other words, his prime motivation in formulating that sentence is a good opportunity for what he sees as trolling.

Considering the discussions that are calmly had on LessWrong (infaticide for starters) I can produce a dozen such "incriminating" out of context quotes. Come to think of it you can get quotes of me saying that infanticide is not as bad a crime as killing and adult, that incest among consenting adults should be legal, ect

Sorry? The discussion over infanticide we were holding a couple of weeks ago was - maybe - not perfectly relaxed, but neither side found the other's statements of position to be unacceptably crude, like flinging excrement in public. I do find exactly that about Moldbug's statement.