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I want an encyclopedia of tropes. The history of ideas, memes, idioms, cliches, and so forth. The rhetorical armor version of snopes. For instances... I'm no
by specialist 5y ago
I want an encyclopedia of tropes. The history of ideas, memes, idioms, cliches, and so forth. The rhetorical armor version of snopes.
For instances...
I'm no longer interested in debunking creationism. I just want to know who started it, and the jargon and dog whistles they use. So whenever another zealot starts spewing nonsense, I can more quickly recognize the pathogen, and quickly extract myself from the conversation.
Just tell me the shareholder-wealth-maximization fable is just some fanfic Milton Friedman wrote to get beer money from real estate tycoons.
That some former railroad lawyer came up with the "corporate personhood" law hack so that his patrons could avoid paying taxes.
That all those QAnon stories is just a serial loser monetizing the forum posts of kids playing conspiracy Madlibs.