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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
you’ll sway more hearts and minds if you actually engage your audience, not spoken maliciously.
being catty like this is anti-intellectual and serves to degrade spaces, even if it can be cathartic at times.
like, just practically speaking i saw a guy earlier on lemmy do the exact same thing and just drop a link to wikipedia in response to discourse and then sit there and look at the other person like smug wojack.
i even agreed with that guy’s position and i watched him do it, cheering on from the sidelines like it was some wrestling match. i upvoted him. but then later i went back and undid my vote because i realized that his detractors had a legitimate criticism - that this behavior is thought-terminating and patently shit on a forum intended for discourse and discussion.
think about it. the people who likely need to read, analyze, and consider that article are going to take the way you just shared it as smug and immediately ignore any point you were possibly trying to make, because they aren’t even going to engage any further than their initial flippant reaction. and that’s not their fault, it’s yours for setting up this subpar rhetorical framing.
on the other hand, people who already agree with you will sit on the sidelines and hoot and cheer and howl and bark because they came to the arena to see blood - just like me earlier in this comment. it’s a human response. without an actual audience, though, it becomes clear the intention of your comment isn’t to spread information or praxis… no, this comment serves as a vector for circlejerking much more than it is a genuine attempt at activism. and i think even if you disagree, deep down you have to know that on some level.
sorry, i don’t mean to single you out but this style of exchange has become all too common in public discourse nowadays and i hate it because it’s like a fucking sports match. just shout louder, be more smug, be more persistent… and then you “win” the argument, whatever that means… this isn’t what debate, dialectic, and discourse are about!
You’re not wrong that I could have been more engaging that just dropping a link but it didn’t seem like there would be much point when the person I was responding to was just calling me a liar. I’m way too burnt out to argue with people and proselytize/do praxis in general but op asked a question so I figured I would answer.