RE: Why can't Trump supporters admit there is something wrong with him
June 20, 2017 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2017 at 3:17 pm by henryp.)
(June 20, 2017 at 3:00 pm)Khemikal Wrote: A gamble implies some sort of expectation of potential payout. What did you expect to gain? Hopefully, you didn't expect any of what's happened....particularly, I hope you weren't expecting trump to make a running hitler joke of himself and his supporters, because then your vote would start to seem really strange.
That he'd follow through on his nationalistic economic policies. I also like the idea of a more isolationist stance in global politics.
I think the US is a bit like MC Hammer after he stopped making hit records, but was still behaving like he was. I think a more isolationist/nationalistic position is better suited for our new position in the world. At least it's better for me, in theory.
(June 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:wallym Wrote:I think differentiating between (back to google) Reductio Ad Absurdum and a strawman is very difficult for people bad at logic, because they don't have the ability to follow the implications of their position to the wacky conclusion. So they just think their position is being misrepresented, which leads to incorrectly calling out "Strawman!"
As a rule of thumb, the person claiming or insinuating that they're better at logic, usually isn't.
That could certainly be the case.