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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.

Either way, he's more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Don't think I didn't appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then