• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Nah, I used it as an example. Dialectical materialism is a worldview that sees the world as an interconnected mix of ever-changing processes, propelled by internal contradictions in everything. It’s how I view the world, it’s the Marxist standpoint. When a metaphysician analyzes something, they tend to abstract it and try to categorize it as though it’s an individual snapshot, while a dialectician will focus primarily on how it came to be, where it appears to be going, and how it relates to everything else.

    Context matters. Sometimes that means I need to take a few extra paragraphs to build my point. Do you have an example of a point I made that had too much context?

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      5 days ago

      I am moving on after this but if you are on the internet and your opening statement, by either topline comment or tacitly invited rebuttal, is more than a paragraph, you’ve painted yourself as someone who is going to basically use the same points in as broad as a way as possible and that, honestly, you are absurdly easy to provoke.

      In neurtal or hostile setti gs you will be ignored. In friendly setting I’m sure you’re told you’re greatly well read and very smart.

      As for me I just know I’m in a thread addressing redfash voter supression.

      Do what that what you will.

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        5 days ago

        I don’t see an example here, nor do I have reason to believe the limits of reaching people is a single paragraph. The only people willing to change their minds in the first place are the ones willing to read at least a few sentences.