Simultaneously having a reasonable conversation with Saikat Chakrabarti by email while a series of angry people (presumably less informed than him about Ocasio-Cortez's policy) call me names on Twitter makes it clear how useless Twitter is for talking about anything complicated.
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And there you have the answer to your question. If its public it is performance.
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I feel like if an editor could rephrase your respective intent, it would be a precious exercise. Pickett I had a convincing argument (r>g) to which I’m assuming you want to respond: of course, SamA is good at his job. But redistribution remains a needed step.
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I've been searching for online communities where I can seek advice and exch ideas with smart people. It seems like an impossible prob- anonymity breeds vitriol, and without it people are too afraid to be honest/ give good advice for fear of misinterpretation and backlash.
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Come to think of it, that would be a fabulous feature to aim for in a forum: that people couldn't deliberately misinterpret you. That may seem overoptimistic, but there are certainly things you could do to limit that.
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If language was precise enough to prevent deliberate misinterpretation, then we could use such a language to write software. Perhaps it isn’t deliberate misinterpretation, but rather, they don’t understand your macros.
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I think the solution to the problem of bad faith argumentation is that good faith commentators tend to form networks, across identity group boundaries, that deepen with time. Bad faith commentators form temporary networks but turn on each other eventually. In twitters ...
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case, bad faith commentators had an initial edge, as academic activists had been practicing argumentation on Internet forums and were more deeply skilled. But as the wider, non-activist population has taken to twitter, and to long form youtube podcasts, their sophistication ...
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