… comments seem like optimized to offend. Such comments are “convincing for the already believing, and irritating for the unbelieving”. They don’t change anyone’s opinion.
This is a very beautiful and short summary of how a lot of political discussions actually look like. This concept is not new for me, but I’ve never seen it summarized this well before.
I feel the same way — I’ve seen that kind of comment all over the place on other sites and in real life, but somehow I’d never created a category for them in my mind. Now that Villiam_Bur has called them out specifically, I think I can think about them more deliberately. I might even give them a snappy name to make them even easier to think about.
This is a very beautiful and short summary of how a lot of political discussions actually look like. This concept is not new for me, but I’ve never seen it summarized this well before.
I feel the same way — I’ve seen that kind of comment all over the place on other sites and in real life, but somehow I’d never created a category for them in my mind. Now that Villiam_Bur has called them out specifically, I think I can think about them more deliberately. I might even give them a snappy name to make them even easier to think about.