#rhetorical — Public Fediverse posts

The newest member of the #SCOTUS, #KetanjiBrownJackson, is the epitome of the #rhetorical Justice. Last week, as the Court prepared to finish its work for the year, Jackson issued a pair of dissents that signalled her despair over the Court’s trajectory, her refusal to sugarcoat its behavior, & her willingness to break with her [appeasing] #liberal colleagues, #Kagan & Sonia #Sotomayor.

#law #dissent #resist #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #FederalistSociety #Christian #NewApostolicReformation

The newest member of the #SCOTUS, #KetanjiBrownJackson, is the epitome of the #rhetorical Justice. Last week, as the Court prepared to finish its work for the year, Jackson issued a pair of dissents that signalled her despair over the Court’s trajectory, her refusal to sugarcoat its behavior, & her willingness to break with her [appeasing] #liberal colleagues, #Kagan & Sonia #Sotomayor.

#law #dissent #resist #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #FederalistSociety #Christian #NewApostolicReformation

#MarjorieTaylorGreene #rages at #KamalaHarris for #denouncing #DonaldTrump’s #admiration of #Hitler.

The #rhetorical #bombthrower and #Qanon #Congresswoman from #Georgia claimed on Wednesday that #KamalaHarris #compared #DonaldTrump to #AdolfHitler and even said that such a #comparison would get Trump #killed.

— If the shoe fits wear it.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-rages-at-kamala-harris-for-denouncing-donald-trumps-love-of-hitler/

#MarjorieTaylorGreene #rages at #KamalaHarris for #denouncing #DonaldTrump’s #admiration of #Hitler.

The #rhetorical #bombthrower and #Qanon #Congresswoman from #Georgia claimed on Wednesday that #KamalaHarris #compared #DonaldTrump to #AdolfHitler and even said that such a #comparison would get Trump #killed.

— If the shoe fits wear it.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-rages-at-kamala-harris-for-denouncing-donald-trumps-love-of-hitler/

@dlovell That's the #sophists vs. #philosophers debate all over again.

I realised a few years back (on Google+) that there were two major schools of online discussion. One is #rhetorical, aimed at winning or convincing. The other is #dialectic, interested in understanding or finding truth. The two are almost wholly incompatible.

Dialectic discussion depends strongly on (I want to say "requires", though I'm not certain of that) a mutual respect. It's quite easiy disrupted.

Encounters with rhetoricians should be considered at best training on their methods. References to the classsics, such as Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (the original "Bullshit Arguments Which Must Die"), and Cicero, remain useful. Very rarely can you actually win a concession. Less rarely, learn something.

@woozle (toot.cat's Supreme Uberwensch) was party to that G+ thread and has a similar interest in epistemic debate.

@dlovell That's the #sophists vs. #philosophers debate all over again.

I realised a few years back (on Google+) that there were two major schools of online discussion. One is #rhetorical, aimed at winning or convincing. The other is #dialectic, interested in understanding or finding truth. The two are almost wholly incompatible.

Dialectic discussion depends strongly on (I want to say "requires", though I'm not certain of that) a mutual respect. It's quite easiy disrupted.

Encounters with rhetoricians should be considered at best training on their methods. References to the classsics, such as Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (the original "Bullshit Arguments Which Must Die"), and Cicero, remain useful. Very rarely can you actually win a concession. Less rarely, learn something.

@woozle (toot.cat's Supreme Uberwensch) was party to that G+ thread and has a similar interest in epistemic debate.