• savoy@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    And we’re the ones who want to exist in self-affirming spaces? Liberals can’t see the hypocrisy of decrying the far-right yet acting exactly like them.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Always gotta love the faux-confidence the libs have of knowing they are always right, because they can dismiss anyone who doesn’t agree with them as biased/a shill/propagandist.

    Heaven forbid somebody engage in an intellectually honest debate with somebody with a differing opinion. Even if somebody IS spouting propaganda, you don’t become tainted by having a discussion with them; you might even convince a third party who is viewing.

    • IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Listen pal, Ukraine is Dumbledore’s Rebellion Army and Russia is goddamn Dark Vader and the Nazis (bad) all rolled into one. Now are you gonna wise up and support the Nazis (good) against the bigoted slavic hordes, or am I gonna have to write more vague masturbatory screeds in the cadence of a West Wing monologue I half-watched once?

      That’s what I thought.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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    Uuuuuuugh, “I don’t like this source” is easily one of my least favorite responses; the respondent may as well not even post since they’re ignoring the content anyway. Yes, the Wall Street Journal is puke, but nobody lies 100% of the time. That’s why you need to learn how to read critically.

    There has to be some sort of course that people can take to teach them how to properly scrutinize sources and distinguish between good reporting and rumourmongering, rather than trying to take shortcuts like that.

    And what’s up with all of the repetitive definitions and attempts to accuse you of being logically fallacious? It doesn’t make the replier look clever; it’s just extremely embarrassing.

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      Yes, the Wall Street Journal is puke, but nobody lies 100% of the time. That’s why you need to learn how to read critically.

      The point we post explicitly liberal sources is to make liberals think even for just a second. Turns out, it’s still not enough.

      And what’s up with all of the repetitive definitions and attempts to accuse you of being logically fallacious?

      It’s an old trolling technique, but this guy apparently didn’t even understand how it’s done.

      • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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        I had a philosophy professor years ago who said that people who make catalogues of logical fallacies don’t really understand logic. The true logician simply examines the argument, notes that it doesn’t follow, and tells you why without using any jargon.

        Being on the internet has convinced me this guy was completely correct.

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          It’s not only an internet, reading philosphy in general i noticed it’s awfully filled with jargon. And it tend to use it in worst possible manner.

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            Philosophy has a tendency to need to use very specialized language to avoid problems of ambiguity and to precisely identify concepts that have no reason to come up in the vast, vast majority of conversation among laypeople.

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              I mean, yes and no. You go to Aristotle, for instance, and while his work is definitely not easy to understand – it being lecture notes and all – it’s surprising how little jargon he uses, with most of it being just common words used in a restricted sense, e.g., “matter” or “relation.”

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    I swear to god, when this shit is finished I’m going to bottle liberals tears and drink it with vodka. I fucking can’t wait enough for the West to fall, I hate so much having to interact with these people.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      Their whole world view if fractally wrong, and it’s going to be incredible to see how they react when they’re finally forced to start reconciling it with reality.