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Social media isn't a visit to a library, or a sit down with a newspaper or even a conference hall. It's akin to a brief discussion with a passerby. Some people may stop for the guy on the soapbox in the town square, but I'm sorry if I didn't come to the fediverse that day expecting a lecture. Your feelings are valid, and I can respect them, but knowing your audience is important.
There is a word limit in these boxes of text. That means the people behind this platform decided that there should be a maximum amount of characters that they consider the "maximum reasonable amount of text a human of this community might read in a post". You are seeing that limit in my comment. It's literally one single page of any book in a library.
As I told the other person; people on both sides are conditioning themselves to hate reading long texts. That's very dangerous, and one big reason we are all in this shithole we yearn to get out of. We need to educate ourselves, but, it's hard when people can create an insane lie in just a sentence, while you need walls of text to properly dismantle it. It's hard to do it justice with that amount. I guess that's why I never used Twitter in my life, the limit. I love reading people's thoughts, no matter how long. Hate to see that social medias are truly weakening us, because this only benefits the elite, the rich who want us dumb, the Jeffrey Epstein class, and I don't think I am exaggerating, we all know they want us dumb, so. This is what part of that looks like: People who hate to read more than 500 words in like 3 minutes or even less. I think it's over. They won, man. GG. I will keep writing, but only because it feels good and liberating, that's all there is to it. I will just have to ignore the repetitive comments. I've seen them since I was 12, lol, they just became way more brazen and common, it sucks.