#Rhetoric

Wow! That was a sublime speech by Joe Biden. Half way through, he says โ€˜No rhetoric is neededโ€™ but he actually uses a heap of rhetorical devices throughout. In my
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On Lawrence Krauss' assertion that science is not systematically racist - a thread1/nhttps://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/1279201378108182528 1st: let us put aside the multiple serious accusations of sexual harassment and subsequent reti
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I watched original The Corporation and watched โ€œThe New Corporationโ€ on @CraveCanada today. If you care about the state of affairs un your world watch it! http://thenewcorporation.movie  & agree with
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Took me some digging to find the writing thread you're all mad about and I'm going to list all of the points on it I agree with:7)10)11), 12) and 13)
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After 10+ years of involvement, I've decided to leave DSA. Class reductionism, or more plainly - white supremacy, is infecting DSA. There's hostility towards those who fight for marginalized identities,
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All this long pandemic campaign season, our writers have helped make sense of the ways that our most charged & complex policy issues impact gender equity in America. A short
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With the results of the Polish presidential election basically counted, some first thoughts before the run-off in two weeks. Much will depend on voter flows and how both candidates will
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Against the ridiculous idolatry polemic.Idolatry is almost an ingrained assumption when talking about worship. Many people feel uncomfortable with it even today. Another thread will discuss why the Jews likely
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There are a lot of people confused about what Kenney is doing regarding KXL. Itโ€™s a strategy. I keep trying to inform people he is not speaking to the public
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US Murder Machine Now Under Competent Management"I think we're all breathing a lot easier knowing that the US government will now be run by grown-ups who murder people instead of
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If you were still in any doubt about not just how divisive & misguided Laurence Fox is, but also how dangerously irresponsible he is, this might help.Brextremist millionaire Jeremy Hosking,
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Gonna do a thread of awful things MatPat has done -May 11th 2013In this video he tries to determine whether the TF2 character The Pyro is a man or a
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.@LewisForMN is right. We have a lot power in the suburbs. And that means we have to ask ourselves some pretty important questions:1/11https://twitter.com/LewisForMN/status/1323034926728564736 Do we believe in justice and equality?"You
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A few months after Hitler became Fรผhrer, the Nazis wanted power beyond their borders.On Hitlerโ€™s orders, Deputy Fรผhrer Rudolf Hess charged German-American immigrant Heinz Spanknobel to form the pro-Nazi movement
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"Define Psychological ProjectionA theory in psychology in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive&negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to
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The way the Right has seized on "postmodernism" in "academia" as this massive... thing... is so dissonant with my experiences as an academic. I learned about various postmodern/poststructural theories, foolishly
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