HUH, THIS.
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A referendum to remove the legislature's ability to reverse the voiding of laws found unconstitutional
The most important arguments are the ones that go without saying. That you can simply assume your interlocutor is already convinced by
Reading the article one level up, not to be convinced by its arguments, but to observe that this is how the community it comes from argues
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Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.
Did I, in fact, say that with my whole face hanging out, or are you just rounding off to the most convenient strawman of an enemy?
A conversation where mentioning that it contains spoilers for a work is itself a spoiler for the work
We're not even arguing yet! We're still trying to understand each other's statements at a level of detail where we can evaluate if we agree or disagree!
Invited to join the inner circle of the imposter syndrome society. I hope they don't discover that I've been faking it all along.
A truly cursed gulf of understanding, where every attempt to explain brings your interlocutor further away from your understanding, and where every attempt to confirm produces a worse ball of twisted gibberish
A behavior that is not fundamentally wrong, but it's statistically likely that people looking for opportunities to do it are bad actors.