• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    That’s all too many words. You don’t need all the exposition. You know how you know the guy you described is a racist? By the the fact that he’s a racist. Doing racist things.

    All that other stuff is extra padding.

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      10 hours ago

      Sorry use many words. I see question, think want answer. Am wrong?

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          46 minutes ago

          You’re right! You know what I could have said instead?

          Who could have guessed that the rich white South African would turn out to be a white supremacist?

          See the flaw in using too few words?

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            39 minutes ago

            I don’t see any flaw. The meaning of that sentence is very clear.

            If the post lead with that then maybe there wouldn’t be any complaints.

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              33 minutes ago

              It literally DOES start with that! That’s the top level comment, word-for-word, which at least two people were too thick to understand. So yes, I gave a longer explanation, like I apparently must also provide to you.

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                  14 minutes ago

                  Yes, I added shiny metaphors, explications and implications, because the subtext of the original post was apparently utterly lost on both of them.

                  Why use many word when few do trick? Because some people don’t understand the few words.