• kaffiene@lemmy.world
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    52 minutes ago

    Oh hell yes! I also feel that people who can’t summarise their argument likely don’t understand it

  • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    This shit happens far too often. Between the YouTube links that “prove” their bullshit, to the thousand-word copypasta essay that doesn’t contain a single original thought.

    Yeah. I’m not doing that.

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        5 hours ago

        You know links are shown in thumbnails, right?

        EDIT: oh shit I get the joke. Man, that’s some meta stuff! You got me there, bud.

        Just not in the obvious way

        Well done. Only you forgot the /s

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      8 hours ago

      Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.

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        I watched/listened to her rant about some Star Wars hotel that I didn’t know existed, while it existed, for 4 hours! Wish I had gone to Disneyland while she was a guide.

        She and Milo Rossi need to figure out a crossover topic for them to just go full ham on.

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    9 hours ago

    Sometimes I back up my argument with entire books lmao. Its not usually for the person I am arguing with. Its for the people who see the argument and are curious

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        50 minutes ago

        Agree with that 100 % I have a degree in Philosophy and that’s a reoccurring dynamic I saw with people trying to baffle with bullshit rather than make a cogent argument

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      8 hours ago

      You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.

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        Yeah, you need to take specific portions of the book to support your argument. I won’t just say “read Fanon” but will give a a specific example from the book in addition to the more general example of the entire work, plus encourage them to read more.