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Insult and run: the standard response when you can’t actually defend your opinions. Some can explain why they hold a position, but this sure is easier.
If you want people to engage with you more, you should engage with what they want sincerely and succinctly instead of of making massive low density essays that don't have content your previous post didn't have. If you get these kinds of responses regularly maybe it's time for some introspection?
Yeah I can monologue a bit, but I have found that explaining in full avoids miscommunication and eventually gets a real response. I do get the weak replies that can’t justify their own ideas, but in my entire time on Lemmy, I have always eventually gotten a real explanation. Even this time.
I’d wade through a hundred of yous to get to someone willing to engage in length. It’s always worth it.
The problem is that low information density writing is disrespectful of other people's time. You could have said what you said in 4 paragraphs in 2 sentences, but you wasted the time of every person that reads your post instead.
Doesn't help that complaining about people making and sharing blog posts because you think it is bad political strategy is asinine in the first place.
Two sentence comments get strawmanned, and since it’s not a work email, nobody has to read it. Manage your time better and skip it, skip this. Why bother with social media if you don’t want to read more than two sentences?
Not to get like, “back in my day about it”, but long comments and casual conversation used to be encouraged. Used to be seen as lazy to drop points for the sake of brevity. Your comments are short and this is the first time you’ve mentioned the actual topic since the og comment— potentially useful discussion is lost in the race to the bottom.
Poor political strategy is asinine. That one has real world effects.