Wait vs. Interrupt Culture
It’s much better to start to interrupt a little and if the person feels they need to continue they will acknowledge that you started and continue talking a bit louder. That way you signal that you have something to retort and they should wrap it up. Think of it like a continuous curve between 0 and 1, rather than a jump to exactly 0 or 1.<p>In general, in debates where you don’t interrupt, people can just gish gallop all over the place.<p>And furthermore, verbal conversations aren’t the best way to solve things. Better to break what you say into written claims, and each one can have a community upvote arguments for and against the claim, hyperlinking to other claims.<p>Most conversations on social networks are totally useless wastes of time where people pretend they know more than they do, and repeat the same thing 3000 other people said in other similar conversations. And nothing gets solved anyway because they have no power to do so LMAO<p>The older I got the more I realized how much of a waste of time most activities are, unless you are enjoying yourself or building something over time, or raising children. Having a conversation about politics has just as much effect as having one about astronomy, and you may as well just read wikipedia, to get a far more balanced and broad view.