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A rant is not a speech or text a well-researched and calm argument, rather rants are typically written in response to provocation.

Rants directly attack an idea, person or an institution, and they very often lack claims that are proven. The attacks are usually personal attacks. Comapre with a dialectic.

In some cases, there is statistical or concrete information expressed, but the key ideas expressed are what the individual personally feels.

However, in some cases a rant is not always attacking something: it may be in defense of an individual, idea or organization but a rant of this type predominately occurs after the subject has been attacked by another individual or group