• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    if you want to learn, you search discord.

    This is why when learning guitar I looked up guitar lessons and then looked for people who didn’t believe learning to play guitar was possible at all and the abilities instead were based upon innate talent and genetics! /s

    Seriously, if learning was done by discord, then US politics (and cable news viewers) would be full of absolute scholars, instead of, you know, the exact fucking opposite of that.

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      2 days ago

      guitar example does not work :/

      politicians are not genuine in their discourses. Most are there for profit and they say things that even they don’t believe in 🤷

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        2 days ago

        Why would listening to two sides of this help you learn anything? Hearing double the lies will teach you nothing.

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          2 days ago

          after your comment, i went back to the top of this post and started reading all the comnents. It’s very interesting to read the arguments from many sides and see the nuances some people bring to the conversation.

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            2 days ago

            That isn’t all discord.

            Relatedly, if you think social media threads are a great way to learn stuff I don’t know what to tell you other than maybe try picking up a book and see if there’s a difference there.