JamesStallion

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[–] JamesStallion 10 points 2 months ago

Thus is a holdover from half remembered lessons on Plato I guess. Socrates is contrasted with the rhetoricians as seeking Truth, a noumenal thing beyond us that we discover (or recall as Socrates would put it). The rhetoricians representative Gorgias has his argument famously summed up as "man is the measure of all things", that is to say that nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Rhetoricians famously taught people how to convince others of their point of view, essentially modern debate technique. Socrates undermined this practice by pointing out that the skills employed (tone of voice, rhythm, eloquence) had nothing to do with determining truth.

With this argument in mind we can see why "rhetoric" is now used as a shorthand for emotional appeals, or style over substance. Rhetoric is what you rely on when you cannot make a structured and logical argument, while in theory the truth is the truth even if delivered in a dull monotone of limited vocabulary.

[–] JamesStallion 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Imma blow a gasket

[–] JamesStallion 6 points 2 months ago

The cats take valuable couch space

[–] JamesStallion 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Remember when they AId Harris as a demon and she the result looked hot as fuck

[–] JamesStallion 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Step 1: do not poop for three days straight

[–] JamesStallion 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, like a working class person.

[–] JamesStallion 4 points 2 months ago

The folks I work with would never associate with the chronically online hexbear types you see here, the ones constantly blaming "crackers" for transphobia.

[–] JamesStallion 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yup. They bring them up as reasons why they don't want their children going to public schools, they don't want what they see as white perversions infecting their kids.

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