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

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The first and only good babylonbee article

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.