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Originally Posted by Pepsifree
Last edited by PepsiFree; 06-02-2021 at 12:01 PM. Reason: for some reason it put peter's name on the quote... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
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Did this actually happen? Remember when I posted a quote of something and it got you and Rube mixed up? I'm still baffled by that.
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Take the air out of it. Bring up a tangential point in an attempt to redirect.
This is how Cliff discusses stuff. Not facing the real point, but veering into other areas that make him seem like he is the enlightninged one. Some people gobble that #### up. The reality is it's Cliff never follows up with anything of value.
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Yeah, I think this is a fundamentally bad take about conversations. It just reads as "No, stop talking about the topic like that! Talk about it the way I want to talk about it."
As long as it's on topic, you don't get to decide what the "real" point is, or what's tangential, or whether some other area or other angle on the discussion is valid and worth talking about (even if it legitimately IS tangential). You don't have to engage in discussion about it if you think it's not interesting or important or "of value", but someone else might and you don't have any basis for imposing your intuition about what's interesting about a particular topic on someone else. That's how we just get 10 pages of people agreeing with each other ad nauseum.