At what point does a fixation on stupid people become an egotistical self-flagellation? Probably by the third paragraph. You could have good points, but they’ll be lost in your logorrhea. For real, go ahead and count how many times you use the word stupid. This is coming from someone who agrees with you. It just comes off as pretentious and dilutes your point.
No, with respect, I mean self-flagellation. It’s like beating off one’s own ego in the sense of masturbation, not performing oral on one’s self in auto-fellatio.
I get what you mean about repetition, and again, I agree with the sentiment (I live in the southern United States; I’m steeped to the point of drowning in stupid Republicans,) but after a handful of paragraphs of repetition, it doesn’t have as much impact. Less is more IMO
I really do understand, but don’t you see what I’m getting at? Don’t let unbridled emotion show through repetition to the point of redundancy. It drains the emphasis. Lean on your lexicon, use a thesaurus, as Muhammad Ali would say, rope-a-dope.
At what point does a fixation on stupid people become an egotistical self-flagellation? Probably by the third paragraph. You could have good points, but they’ll be lost in your logorrhea. For real, go ahead and count how many times you use the word stupid. This is coming from someone who agrees with you. It just comes off as pretentious and dilutes your point.
do you maybe mean auto-fellatio?
also, repetition of a word or phrase is a common rhetorical device used to drive home a point–in this case, “republicans are fucking stupid”
which they are, and IMO, it can’t be repeated enough how fucking stupid they are
No, with respect, I mean self-flagellation. It’s like beating off one’s own ego in the sense of masturbation, not performing oral on one’s self in auto-fellatio.
I get what you mean about repetition, and again, I agree with the sentiment (I live in the southern United States; I’m steeped to the point of drowning in stupid Republicans,) but after a handful of paragraphs of repetition, it doesn’t have as much impact. Less is more IMO
I really do understand, but don’t you see what I’m getting at? Don’t let unbridled emotion show through repetition to the point of redundancy. It drains the emphasis. Lean on your lexicon, use a thesaurus, as Muhammad Ali would say, rope-a-dope.
“Self-flagellation” means whipping yourself in penance.