Remind me: Is the chief political advisor to the dude who let months of a Senate super majority go to waste bc of a desire to appear to engage Republicans, all while staged faux-riots were burning up the month of August? How'd that work for building an enduring legacy, Axe?https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1011417584753881088 …
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Replying to @ColonelDax1
Where did I say anything ad hom about Axe? The ONLY description OF HIM I made was "chief political advisor"? Is that not accurate, or are you just unsure what ad hom is?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Ad hominem , short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument
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Replying to @ColonelDax1
GREAT! You can cut and paste. We're making PROGRESS!!!!!! Now explain why referring to Axe as "chief political advisor" is ad hom. See if you can find a cut and paste to answer that.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Read your tweets. Take out everything that is an attack on Axelrod as a person and see what's left.
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Replying to @ColonelDax1
But you have yet to point to ANYTHING that IS an attack on him. The ONLY reference I made to him was as chief political advisor, which is 1) true 2) neutral wrt character.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Read your tweet. Axlerod is making a point about X, and your response to his tweet is essentially "This comment is coming from the loser who did Y". There's nothing in your tweet about the substance of his argument.
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Replying to @ColonelDax1
Let me explain this slowly for you, bc you're struggling. 1) Axe made a comment abt necessity of civility. 2) Axe largely chose the policy of civility and bipartisanship that Obama employed. 3) That policy has outcomes that can be measured.
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Replying to @emptywheel @ColonelDax1
4) If we measure how successful Obama was at implementing policies that stuck (ACA and Iran, among others), that policy failed. 5) It failed bc Dems didn't use their huge majority to consolidate power, instead choosing "civility."
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So, no. The comment was not only not an ad hom attack, it was a direct response to Axe's comment to show how in the past such advice had proven to be catastrophically wrong.
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