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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... "Shouting echo chamber" = a claim made when one side offers any criticism of the other; i.e., that any disagreement means you're in an ideological 'echo chamber.'
- gayle...
Maybe, but that would be kind of like the arsonist who sets fire to houses and then calls the fire department before they have time to burn down because he wants to receive accolades for being a hero.... Read the full post - onHow can we step outside the biases that distort our judgments of human development and history, especially if our neurological and transcendental structures themselves constrain what can appear to us as reality?bySerpardum...
You said when an accuser cannot substatiate and accustion he is uniformed or a liar. THAT IS A LIE. It just means they don't have the evidence on hand. Lack of evidence is NOT evidence. Learn logic so you can quit lying.... Read the full post - Serpardum...
Time is what we call cause and affect. Cause and affect happen, so time happens.
You are just arguing over words to no avail, ruining those who listen. - PoetBill...
It should be very easy to see your point.
- 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.... - 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?... Sure, it's tuned a little toward incindiary hot take, but I stand by it empirically and as a vague, open ended bet.
- 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,"...