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As a provocation, I’d prefer: No statement / belief is true, including this one. ---- I prefer it when sentences that are grammatically knowledge claims ("X is Y", "X is not Y") are spoken because the speaker actually is making a knowledge claim.... I resonate with your suspicions of the rhetoric you describe. It seems like, while Trump’s way is more to double down on incendiary statements, Vance is playing the role of the reasonable one, explaining to the handful of undecided voters why Trump’s policies, incendiary though... - Mark Burns...
This is the sharpest critique of trust-based ranking I've seen on here, and it deserves a real answer. The risk you've identified is real: if "trustworthy" becomes a proxy for "palatable," the system rewards rhetorical softness rather than argumentative rigor.... - Serpardum...
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- onI’m absolutely astounded that the man sitting in the White House is allowed to call female reporters dumb ugly stupid and corrupt with no blow back.byJustJacki...
Wow. You must be quite selective in what conversations you allow yourself to become aware of. Do you only follow those stories which help support your narrative?... - onWe have the option to see everything in your life as collaborative; we are scared to say this because we don't want to victim-blame but we're also scared of the possibilities and transcendence that opens upbyMalcolmOcean...
I agree this is super important and difficult to talk about! It's the subject of my own #DeepTake from this morning: Hell is Praying and Heaven is Bullshitting And without even getting past the title, I already have a beef with your articulation of it: "We have the option to,"...