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You defeat bad arguments with good arguments. By the way this is the ONLY way. Silencing those you disagree with will only enrage and mobilize those people, an
by gdix 9y ago
You defeat bad arguments with good arguments. By the way this is the ONLY way.
Silencing those you disagree with will only enrage and mobilize those people, and those people vote. Hence, Trump.
- vinceguidry 9y agoI would argue that Trump is a manifestation of the exact opposite, that no matter how good the argument is, it won't beat a bad one.
- drspacemonkey 9y agoHonestly, I couldn't point to many people who were making good arguments during the election. Facts, reason, compromise, and logic are Trump's weaknesses, and those were jettisoned from the political process years ago. I'd argue that Trump is what happens when the media and major parties stop making good arguments.
- basch 9y agothe benefits of globalization to the common folk arguemnt hasnt been well articulated as of late.
- pbhowmic 9y agoHard to draw an meaningful inference from a sample data of one.
- pdeuchler 9y ago>> that no matter how good the argument is, it won't beat a bad one. What kind of absurd, nihilist nonsense is this? Sounds like yet another example of Trump's opponents being unable to think critically and assuming their attempt at forcing terrible policy down the throats of common people is a "good argument" against the threat of facism. Trump is winning precisely because there's no "good alternative", 99% of all "alternatives" are just less shitty, and even then only less shitty for certain segments of the population. People never resort to facism with good alternatives, yet strangely it's the default whenever they're stuck with a shit sandwich. But I mean only all of history repeats this lesson, not like we'd expect anyone to understand that or anything.
- maxwin 9y agoUnfortunately, We don't live in an ideal world where everyone is rational and can't be easily manipulated.For example, in my country Myanmar,we just got free speech. But now we are dealing with hate speech which actually lead to hate crimes. The spread of religious hate speech causes one community of people to set fire/ kill another community of people. Hate speech and false facts travels fast and they come back again and again. Sometimes , well , most of the times, the only way you can win is to have zero tolerance for it.
- anabis 9y agoI thought Rohingya were persecuted before freedom of speech also.