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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (30 children)

I think a part of good, honest discourse is recognizing and respecting the time of the person you are talking with.

If you are going to respond with 11 paragraphs quoted from a book, you should preempt it by saying something to diffuse it. Something like, "oh man, this is super long but actually quite beneficial. I wrote a tldr though at the end in case you don't have time to read the whole thing."

I use this site while I'm at work. I literally don't have time to read all of that lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

On Hexbear we regularly bully each other into reading entire books when someone has a bad take. This is mild.

11 paragraphs is like one single page, maybe two.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Educate yourself or shut the fuck up. Otherwise, don't act surprised when you're ridiculed for constantly voicing worthless thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

educate yourself and everyone around you matt-jokerfied

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In this case, I'm just saying throwing 11 paragraphs of some random essay isn't a good way to communicate. I'm all for education.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Someone else already said that the last 2 paragraphs are basically a summary of the whole book, try reading those and see if the other 9 interest you

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