okay maybe i’ll ask more directly for opinions on this: sometimes i write tweets stripped of nuance for rhetorical effect, like “X is Y” when my true opinion is closer to “in many cases X may be mostly Y”. i could see arguments that this is bad. thoughts?
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partly this is a rebellion against rationalist speech norms where you have to caveat everything so much to avoid accusations of overconfidence that you end up not saying anything. and partly it is more fun. but perhaps i ought not contribute to loss of nuance in the discourse 🤔
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there’s a specific way i want my writing to be received - as suggestions, hypotheses, thought-provoking shitposts, material for brainstorming - certainly not as any kind of “truth”. but admittedly this is not always clear from how i write, and maybe it’s unrealistic to expect
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(also i’m still in like jail so just assume i’m liking your replies. i’m in some kind of strange variant where i can like once every few minutes or something)
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thanks for the replies everyone. i think the main thing i want here is a certain quality of playfulness that i can aim for without needing to do any caveating (which feels anti-playful to me). like i can make everything sound more like a shitpost instead
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Digressions on "not all X" are often encouraged by strong phrasing and not relevant to the point one wants to make about X so finding a way to hedge can save everyone some time
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Read this as "I'm still in like, jail" the first time and was momentarily worried that I had missed a big and distressing life event.
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i read it the same way 😂