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Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler (babylonbee.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by RubicTopaz@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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The first and only good babylonbee article

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You joke, but vibes where and are an important part of how fascists took control. They understand that Aristotle was wrong, emotion and symbolism is simply a better form of rhetoric than logic.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it depends what you mean by "better."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You asked, they answered.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't think I didn't appreciate it.