#Rhetoric

Matthew Yglesias

mattyglesias

There are a lot of people on this website who dismiss progressive promises from Democrats as empty rhetoric destined to be betrayed but declare the vaguest tossed-off words or bad

N. Bourbaki, Bad Take Haver

d08890

WARNING: extremely nerdy thread incoming.There's something odd about the rhetoric of Spinoza's demonstrations in the Ethics.Ordinarily, the structure you'd expect is:Proposition: _______Demonstration:_______...QEDright? (1/n) An

Jerry Mao

jerryxmao

I usually don't share these type of stuff on Twitter, but I thought this is an important lesson for everyone. THREAD:Tonight, I heard a white man in his 40s/50s use

John Hayward

Doc_0

Hi, media! Are any of you going to ask if Pelosi's "Biden shouldn't debate Trump because that would legitimize him" idiocy was a factor in the left-wing violence outside the

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afrodykee

I sorta want to make a TERF/exclusionist rhetoric bingo for quickly recognizing their nonsense but that means I need more content. What I can think of off the top of

陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet

tanchunkiet

I feel this friction all the time in US leftist spaces and my impression is that it's a result of the difference in how Asian countries and the US treat

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GunduHuDuGa

#Language Silence is a tool I employ to avoid creating conflict, but not for the lack of an opinion. However, at times, one needs to voice their opinion, especially when

Naomi Barnes

DrNomyn

This is utter ideology "Jobs for the future" is political rhetoric that keeps getting rolled out like "back to basics". You cannot logically prepare for jobs in the future when

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

The Cold Civil War is largely an asymmetric struggle. The Left launches moral/rhetorical attacks, while the Right retaliates with actual policy. 2/Immigration is an example. The Left (including me!) launched

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golikehellmachi

rather than snark, i have two semi-serious thoughts about this kind of tweet. 1 / x klion and the rest of the TNR / twitter left crew have made this

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islandofdrizzle

@BriclynForest has been exposed as a pro-life, pro-force birth, scamming homophobe. As a Christian LGBTQIA+ person, I will not tolerate these kind of “Christians” spreading hate throughout a community that

Iman Sultan

karachiiite

I was approached by a publication to write about the Hindutva, pro-Modi lobby in the US. In my research, I was horrified to discover how so many Indian and Hindu-American

Matt Dowell

dowellml

I’ve been thinking a lot about how people communicate plans for higher education reopenings and how acknowledgement of at-risk populations almost always follows (or well likely follow) as clarifying point

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

Trump’s latest antic — tweeting a threat to kill Democrats — is definitely an effort to distract from his failures. But that doesn’t mean that we should just ignore it.https://www.salon.com/2020/05/28/yes-trumps-twitter-threats-agai

Alex Thompson

AlexThomp

The one thing an early VP pick would likely help Biden with is $$$, which he needs even more of now given the convention is a month later, COVID-19, etc..Given

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Breliloquy

To @thinglygrammar 's point about Notep's being A. predatory and B. Making themselves available. You see how a lot of people jumped to Nick's defense based on one short clip