RE: Democrat Conspiracy
July 20, 2024 at 5:58 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2024 at 6:01 am by Sheldon.)
(July 19, 2024 at 9:23 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 19, 2024 at 8:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Disrupting your sensibilities is not the same as disrupting your life. You're hearing the rhetoric so much that you genuinely believe your very way of living is somehow magnificently impacted by illegal immigration. As unlawful as it may be, it genuinely has zero bearing on your daily life.Tell that to the overrun Democrat mayors of Chicago and New York City. I've had my say. Thanks.
I think I know the answer already, but do you not see the irony is responding to an objection to your use of pure rhetoric, with more rhetoric? Theists often do this when they present poor evidence, they offer more of it thinking it adds up to something compelling, it's bizarre, but 0 + 0 isn't two, it's 0.
Without engaging anyone, go back through this entire thread and count the number of citations you have offered to support your claims, how often did you look for multiple sources to check any subjective bias, for example just searching online for what you wanted to support your position, and not looking for evidence that would suggest it wasn't true?
Critical thinking is not magic, it is merely a tool one employs if one cares that what one believes is true. Yet most people never use it. Rhetoric is of no value at all in validating anything, that's why unscrupulous politicians use it so easily and to such effect, because people rarely are sceptical when hearing what they want to hear, and appealing to people's base fears and ignorance with rhetoric is both easy and dangerous. It works best when people are genuinely suffering of course, but that's not necessary.
Convincing a slight majority they'd be better off by demonising a minority is nothing new, Hitler used it to great effect, and he was of course not the first, nor sadly will he be the last.