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I'm not against republicanism. Your example, 'Great time to abolish the monarchy. Monarchies are fucking stupid', is not an interesting or well though-out comment. If that's all the effort this commenter felt like giving to this forum, then it should be down-voted.



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They aren't very interesting but they tend not to start flamewars and shittifying the place or needing moderation.


A lot of us here are coders and we appreciate concise code. Why not, then, concise arguments? Bias wrapped in fake nuance is obvious and time-wasting. "Fucking stupid" is an apt description of monarchism in this day and age.


Concision means expressing a lot of information in few tokens.

Name-calling and other kinds of fulmination don't express much information.


> A lot of us here are coders and we appreciate concise code. Why not, then, concise arguments?

Concisely: this argument is unconvincing.

> Bias wrapped in fake nuance is obvious and time-wasting.

But how do you know it is "fake nuance" rather than genuine explanation? By being uncharitable?


It's low effort.




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