I am really trying to maintain optimism about possibility of having productive conversations with people with different views. I really am.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is possible when we talk about ideas with a consensus about what words mean. What the hell do you do when that breaks down?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
When one person says one thing and the other hears something else entirely? How is communication possible then?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I am so sick of being told I've said things I haven't & couldn't possibly be assumed to mean by comprehending the words I've used.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I am just sick of it, full stop. All the ugliness & rage & polarisation & distortion & misrepresentation & tribalism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think twitter makes it impossible to engage an argument in good faith. Concision is a prescription for misrepresentation and signaling
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Not that you don't valiantly try to be reasonable and argue in good faith. Its just so foreign to arguments in the flesh
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