#Rhetoric

Just like making music, acting, dancing, fiction writing is also a creative pursuit. It is nice to have a supportive community that encourage you to be productive and surround you
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i haven't released a new video in seven months because crafting arguments often feels like antihuman behavior. rhetoric is the art of putting thoughts in people's heads and i don't
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Biden did show up for the #Debates2020 both cogent and coached. This was a +1 over expectations. DJT came out aggressive, never let up. I think this was his
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I keep seeing "OMG people just don't want to work" posts about fast food jobs & I just want to know why anyone would think artificially low wages, no benefits,
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Sorry to go conspiracy theory for a second, but is anybody else slightly nervous seeing how much the media is outsourcing its anti-Trump rhetoric to people formerly in his circle?
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Interesting article on "woke" rhetoric, electability, and policy support from @RichardHanania George Hawley, and @epkaufm. It also gets at something I think is important about political correctness.A quick thread.https://psyarxiv.
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THREAD: Today, Trump accused the Supreme Court of attacking Americans with "shotgun blasts."By riling up his base, Trump increases the risk of violence for all judges, who he often delegitimizes
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James Cone, father of Black Liberation Theology: “When whites undergo the true experience of conversion wherein they die to whiteness and are reborn anew in order to struggle against white
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It appears the “Right” has become stuck in an echo chamber... thus failing to realize they themselves are the ones who got “Uncle Tom” trending... Yikes... reading these comments is
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"Cold war" was a term coined in the atomic age to refer to a conflict in which the two nations do not actually engage with each other militarily. I don't
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Trump's tactics were more effective in '16 because he was perceived as punching up. Now, Trump IS the establishment, and anything he does is a punch down by default. This
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When I was reporting my @NewYorker profile of Stephen Miller, months before the Covid crisis, the overwhelming sense among WH & DHS sources was that Trump Admin was gearing up
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THREAD: Media concern about parties straying from the center seems to be strictly reserved for Democrats. In fact, Googling "Are Republicans moving too far right?" results almost exclusively in articles
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My research found “law & order” helped Nixon win in 1968 yet today Trump’s effort is falling flat. How did Trump inherit 50 years of GOP advantage and then squander
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I am deeply disturbed and hurt by the rhetoric constantly thrown at me by elites when I talk abt prison abolition or decriminalizing addiction/drugs.The assumption that this is a pet
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All of that feminist rhetoric means nothing because when it’s time to insult other women, you resort to your misogynistic tool bag lol It’s “hoe is life” until you wanna
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