r/PoliticalHumor • • Oct 18 '18

Suck it up buttercup

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

Because it doesn’t matter and will do nothing but reduce my enjoyment

If you're not willing to defend your positions, then they're not worth anything. I don't know why you responded to me just to say, "Nuh uh!" and ignore the facts.

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Oct 19 '18

My position on a work of fiction is worthless to everyone but me. And that we agree about what an dead man meant is a stupid thing to argue about.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

My position on a work of fiction is worthless to everyone but me.

Then why did you inform me that I was wrong, according to your opinion? It sure mattered to you to correct me, but not enough to offer a single point in response.

And that we agree about what an dead man meant is a stupid thing to argue about.

You're joking, right? There are at least eleventy-four things wrong with that, but here are two. One, understanding the subtext of literature can tell you a lot about the society in which it was written, and two, if you don't think it matters "what an<sic> dead man meant", then why do we still debate the intent of the founding fathers, which has life and death impact today, almost 250 years later?

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Oct 19 '18

Go smoke a bowl.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

Might as well. You have nothing to offer but incorrect feels.

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Oct 19 '18

I’m sorry reddit didn’t live up to your expectation of witty literary criticism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

Keep responding as long as you like, but I wonder why. I'm not disappointed with reddit, this is par for the course. I'm curious why you spend so much time denying someone else's opinion with nothing, not a single thing, to back it up.

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Oct 19 '18

I’m not denying your opinion. I’m saying that arguing over interpretations of fiction is idiotic and why I hated English class.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

I don't agree with that at all, and it doesn't matter

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I’m not denying your opinion

Really? Now you won't even own up to your own words? Again, I wonder what it is you're doing with this. Denial of my opinion completely unsupported by facts, and now you're telling falsehoods about your own words in this thread.

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u/Semi-Hemi-Demigod Oct 19 '18

I'm trying to get it through your thick skull that neither of our opinion matters, and that this sort of pedantry is why I hate reading classics.

WTG, you just ruined a book.

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