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That’d be a lot nicer than Ed Zitron non-stop unthinking whiny critique. I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to

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as someone who grew up in an “old timey” baptist church, I am 100% comfortable with someone yelling things at me that I agree with, but ymmv.

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Yeah, preaching emotions over critical thought sounds like better offline. I literally cancelled my premium Spotify because they didn’t give me a way to stop that show from auto playing after behind the bastards

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i love spock hes my favorite part of the vulcan api

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un…thinking?

whew that’s sure a word choice right there

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Do you have a point to make?

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do you?

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don’t think I’ve ever heard someone I agree with being so unpleasant to listen to

Sending this to EZ so that he can put it as his by-line

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Not quite so familiar with this Ed Zitron individual myself, but I agree that critique is best served with precision, clarity, wit, charm, and style. When someone holds a rhetorical position that is correct with regard to reality but articulates said position very poorly, it does a disservice to the discourse at large.

People (albeit foolishly) very well might reflexively adopt an objectively false stance JUST because they don’t want to agree with someone so disagreeable.

Or in other words, sometimes nothing makes an idea sound worse than the enthusiastic support of a moron.

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