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Kamala Calls For Peaceful Transfer Of Power To Adolf Hitler (babylonbee.com)

submitted 1 week ago by RubicTopaz@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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The first and only good babylonbee article

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it depends what you mean by "better."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 1 week ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You asked, they answered.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Don't think I didn't appreciate it.