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You mean to say imperial ambitions, not empirical ambitions.
E: also you’re not using that word right.
If you’re open to taking some criticism, it seems like you have a media based understanding of the world. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, we all internalize stuff from media, but you’re talking to people who tend to have an understanding that’s rooted in study as opposed to media and who have a communist perspective that reenforces their understanding because communists love writing books about stuff almost as much as they love reading books about stuff.
Once you get hit with the ol’ tankie wall of links, consider clicking on some of them. It’s easy to see someone posting a mess of links in response to you as an argumentation strategy, but it’s actually an education strategy.
As someone guilty of this, I actually disagree. The wall of links is more for argumentation, as you want as much supporting evidence as possible. For education, the person you're talking to has to want to learn, in which case fewer, specific links tends to be remarkably more effective.
Now, there's always hope that onlookers will see and click the many links, especially ones they are curious about. However, when there are many in a comment, the hope generally is in persuading the audience to agree with me, which then turns to them either checking the links directly (always fantastic) or deliberately trying to educate themselves.
Marxist pedagogy is an understudied area I'm trying to work on improving in my own life.
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It’s okay that I called all people dumb because I didn’t call them evil.
Evil is immoral
Dumb is just a limitation of your meat suit
They're not equivalent, like not even in the same category, let alone the same level.
And now you are dehumanizing people by equating them to nothing but a piece of meat.
Do you u see how exhausting pedantic rhetoric that lacks any meaningful substance can really get?
Yeah, man. I didn't realize how much I was struggling connecting my thoughts to what I was saying and kept trying to make it clear, which always comes off as me engaging in pedantry. Sorry man, got my foot stuck in my mouth today. Cheers
It’s not that evil and dumb are the same thing, it’s that consigning all of humanity into the same category makes a fundamental mistake.
Yeah, thanks for the advice. I can tell that they're trying to flood me with information in order to get me to shut up, so I can't make myself read those links. I've tried a couple of times, but even with material I'm extremely open to... non-fiction is a no-go for my narrative keyed brain. The ADHD is strong with me.
I really should've shut the hell up once I realized I put my foot in my mouth earlier. Sorry, and thanks for the grace
It’s okay. You did good.