yeah, dude, whatever. You know you *are* way less smart and way less important than you seem to think you are, and that you do write a huge amount while not saying much, yeah? Like, I substantially *agree* with this dismissal of you.
Use. Fewer. Words.
And fuck, dude, if you're going to post all these essay-length posts, do it on substack, right? Part of what is so fucking ridiculous about you is you're making substack posts that no one would care about on fucking Tumblr.
The things that I say are obvious to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
They take fewer words to communicate to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
I don't seem all that intelligent to you because you're grousehuntingseason.
I myself think that a lot of the things that I say are obvious. I got into politics posting because I thought a lot of people were missing things that I thought were obvious. In my extremely long essay, I wrote that from my perspective, the point of my blog is to explain things that are obvious. I got into the habit of breaking things down into their foundations, from which the conclusions logically follow, in part for that reason. When I break things down, more people go "...oh," or "I disagree, but it makes sense now."
And there will be people who send anons like, "I used to read you, and you helped me to develop a better understanding of politics, but why are you still fighting these lowbies?"
And like, I'm still testing things and working on my health, but a lot of the problems are in more basic misunderstandings. If people get to arguing about 1% differences in marginal tax rates, I'm actually not smart and technically experienced enough to contribute to that! But if that becomes the norm then it means that I can quit politics and go make video games or something.
My experience from the outside is that you're rather abrasive, which can work sometimes, not work other times, and frankly more cynical and harsher than I like, but that's necessary sometimes.
If you have successful practice in convincing people of things or helping them to learn complex-to-them or unintuitive-to-them ideas and have some recommendations, I'm open to hearing them.
My experience is that using fewer words to get through to people who aren't you is actually really difficult, because it will just bounce off, like telling them some short but correct piece of ancient Chinese wisdom or something. It's possible sometimes but it takes a lot of practice. (It's only something I'm just now getting better at.)
Like I dunno man, is that something you do and I'm just not picking up on it?
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