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The unnecessarily personal tone of this comment distracts from the substantive points. These statements only detract:

Your understanding of the points you are arguing against is so terrible and flawed that you need to start over from scratch.

...betrays a profound misunderstanding...

I commend to you a lot of time with a textbook...

...it is objectively true that you don't understand [economic theory].

The grandparent-poster reports having a degree in economics; his points may be be wrong, but a denigratory and lecturing tone won't convince him or others.

(Edit: I initially flagged the 'idea... is such crap' line as problematic too, but then realized it was just a mirror of russell's own language. Still, it was shoddy name-calling by him initially; mirroring it back is understandable in response or to call attention to it, but doesn't lift the tone any.)



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