That's how you persuade a Republican that Trump is bad--explain that he's a bad way to make the country great. Do you know how persuasion works? You understand what the person you're trying to persuade wants and then show them how to get it.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
What I understand about persuasion is that it mostly doesn't work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
For instance, you are trying to use this technique on me right now and miserably failing, because we can all tell that you are very clumsily trying to imitate someone who shares my values without actually understanding what they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I'm not trying to persuade you, I'm trying to persuade others who are reading the thread. People most likely not participating in the conversation because they're on the fence
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yeah, that's also the only reason I have these conversations, and the way to do that is to appeal to the values I actually share with them, by using someone like you as a negative example to hold in contempt and disgust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
The other part of this is to show people who do agree with you that they're not alone, I think.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @PlzBeSensible and
Every single expert on how elections work is fucking unanimous that the best way to organize to win an election is preaching to the choir Yelling at your enemies is *thousands* of times less effective than ginning up your base's emotion and enthusiasm
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Yeah - which is what so many faux debates are anyway: a way to make preaching to the choir exciting and interesting by having a foil to humiliate and pile on.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Nobody's actually listening to the other side of the debate, they're just looking for clever put-downs, or for opportunities to mock them in the future. That's why the genre is usually on youtube as "So-and-so DESTROYS X"
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Yes... and that is very much not what SSC is about.
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It is, they just have absurdly hypocritical recursive justifications for it Scott "DESTROYS" and "EVISCERATES" people in a charitable, rational way for being uncharitable and irrational all the time and nobody bats an eye at the contradiction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
They're incredibly tribal and cultural Scott's famous post about "tribes" even ADMITS "Wow, this is just me using the Blue Tribe (the Left) as a punching bag and I should strive to rise above that" and people just cheered for the leftist hypocrisy being skewered
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
It's Fox News with big words
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