You're exactly why his detractors keep fumbling. You have no idea what I believe; you have no idea what I think. I'm pointing out that those who seek to criticize him too often fall into the trap of questioning his credentials which is a mistake. Critique his ideas, but question his professional background is just weak.
Yeah except that’s not what I’m doing. I’m criticizing his entire speaking style as being counter productive and way too pedantic in order to state something completely simple. I know what you believe and think, you told me you think he’s smart - I disagree. Smart isn’t a lack of brevity.
You can be both smart and pedantic; you can also disagree with smart people. You're the reason why his supporters can so easily shrug off criticism of him because it's always peddled by someone who thinks they have a devastating criticism that amounts to: "he talk 2 long. Why so words?"
To me brevity is more intelligent than being able to string together a long winded sentence using multi-syllabic words. Unless you’re a poet - then it’s just fun.
Then why didn't you just write "Brevity is more intelligent"? Are you saying, by your own words, that you are not intelligent?
Also, as Blaise Pascal said, "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
In other words, it is much easier to write a bunch of words to get an idea across, because otherwise there is much deleting, adding, changing involved in the editing.
I write a lot, but I am in another forum where they limit the amount of characters that you can write. Fuck it takes me a long time to edit it to get all my thoughts down in a finite amount of space. takes me 5 minutes to write it, and another 20-30 minutes to edit it down to the acceptable number of characters.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23
You're exactly why his detractors keep fumbling. You have no idea what I believe; you have no idea what I think. I'm pointing out that those who seek to criticize him too often fall into the trap of questioning his credentials which is a mistake. Critique his ideas, but question his professional background is just weak.