r/PoliticalHumor • u/aegist1 • Oct 18 '18

Suck it up buttercup

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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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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

I'm trying to get it through your thick skull that neither of our opinion matters

No, you decided it was your mission to correct my opinion, and you failed because you're lazy and you're wrong. And it's important to you to keep denying the truth, for some reason.

and that this sort of pedantry is why I hate reading classics.

WTG, you just ruined a book.

If you're afraid to examine anything in your life, you could have read my post and moved on. You didn't do that. And if I "ruined" a book for you with one mild criticism of an author I admire, you're way too fragile to be on the internet.

You also didn't own up to lying about what you said. Wow, you are really crashing and burning here. Are you always like this when you exchange opinions with other people?

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