Also, all those links go either to Wikipedia or to some breadtube channel called “Anark”

  • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    This is what happens when the incurious attain cursory knowledge.

    They can’t imagine not having an opinion until actually knowing things.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      But seriously though. As an old fart, this is one of the worst things about the internet to me:

      It has made people completely incapable of just going “I don’t know enough about this so I have no opinion on it” because they wikipediad that shit, or even worse got it from some debate-pervert streamer with a helping of epic memes

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        I recall someone semi-recently online who acted like I was trying to dunk on them when I was just being staunch about the facts and about knowing what they’re talking about on the subject matter. Genuinely surprised me at the time because I wasn’t even thinking of it in that way. Probably one of the most important things I had to do in learning this stuff was listening more and “having takes” less. I still try to keep an eye on it because it’s not something I can just unlearn like a switch flip; the world doesn’t need me being “a communist but still arrogant and inventing wildly.”

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          being “a communist but still arrogant and inventing wildly.”

          I feel personally attacked!

          No but seriously, as someone who followed a path which was roughly militant online atheist -> lib debate fetishist -> arrogant communist with nothing but cursory knowledge, I really sympathize with having to work to not fall back into past bad habits. I often find myself furiously typing long comments, then stopping and asking “do I even know this?” or “what am I trying to achieve here?” and then deleting it in shame.

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      Following in the footsteps of Enlai and Xiaoping. Pretty soon he’s gonna be invading other countries like Vladimir.