PeepinGoodArgs

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[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

They’re both 80 years old and just don’t understand how big of an issue it is.

Ramaswamay and Halley aren't nearly 80 years old, though, and they also support drilling with wild abandon as if our natural resources are unlimited.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

On the other hand, the world could have its first trillionaire within the decade!

And you know how like 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years...guess how many 1 trillion seconds is in years...

...you ready?A little under 31,690 years

But unlike Americans living in an unaffordable country, our future trillionaire earned it...right?

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of variations on the word asshole.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ron Betts, a 72-year-old Republican who said he plans to caucus for “Trump all the way,” said he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

Nietzche's The Antichrist apparently didn't go hard enough:

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

All forms of persuasion involve controlling others, but for some reason propaganda is the most taboo.

That's not true. Persuasive dialogue allows others to make their own choices. The persuader's job is to get the person with the decision to choose the desired option. In this sense, persuasion preserves the autonomy of the other and, more importantly, respects them enough to reason with them.

Propaganda largely does not do that.

Fox News is basically a propaganda factory, so it's my go-to example. Look at how they talk about the border situation: it's an invasion, a crisis. That's not bad, per se, but there's no discussion about how the problem came to be in the first place. It's here's an urgent problem that's a direct threat to you, and here's the specific thing we should do about it. Propaganda of an urgent nature is an underhanded technique because it precludes other feasible solutions.

Similarly, propaganda that persuades by omitting important facts also doesn't give the audience a chance to reason through the problem and respect their right to choose among the feasible options if that information were included.

That's why propaganda is often considered coercive and controlling while persuasion generally is not.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Or they think carbon capture at scale will eventually turn out to be successful by the unrelenting tenacity of human ingenuity.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago
  • Pros

    • If you're the leader, you get to will stuff willy nilly and have it carried out by your party.
    • If the leader likes you, you get the support of knowing those in power have your back.
    • If the leader is indifferent to you, in most cases, you can fly under the radar.
    • If the leader hates you, your run-in with suffering from totalitarianism will be relatively quick
  • Cons

    • If you're the leader, you have to keep up the act and watch your back. With total power comes abject fear of reality.
    • If the leader likes you, forget thinking for yourself. Your identity is the party. Whatever aspirations you have for yourself either be hidden deep, deep within you, or murdered altogether.
    • If the leader is indifferent to you, should you somehow get in trouble, you're on your own.
    • If the leader hates you, your run-in with living your best life won't ever happen because some pissant of a human being has scary feelings.
[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why can't you take an average of global average ocean, surface, and air temperatures? That seems like it'd be...an okay...estimate...

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now who would've thought that carving out the tiniest legal area for slavery would be exploited by a slave state? Who could have possibly had the foresight to see that not abolishing slavery leaves open the possibility that it appears again?

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

Right, that's literally what rent is for.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I, for one, took a single class on the history of the Middle East when I began college for the second time five years ago. So...my feelings, whatever they are, are both informed and justified.

So :P

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know the kids don’t know any better and it’s our job as adults to get them through childhood, but my blood boils when they get loud or demand attention.

It sounds like you still expect them to know better, to be better than the sociopathic children they are.

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