https://twitter.com/KiraHuju/status/1777365140016402798
👇🏻 I write in @scroll_in about ”postcolonial populists” and what they mean for the future of decolonial argumentation https://t.co/HvENvi602j
— Kira Huju (@KiraHuju) April 8, 2024
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In my own political rants I've started using leftoid rhetoric to advance rightoid positions and there's really no good way to argue against it.
I'm not even that much of a rightoid, I always vote Soc Dem, it's just hilarious and blackpilling that being reasonable always fails but you can just make a specious argument and imply interlocutors are racist/bigoted/ignant if they disagree
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some people can only be persuaded by emotional manipulation, as Aristotle observes in what may be the most important sentence in the book he wrote over 2000 years ago:
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To truly ascend you must realize that emotions actually are rational.
If I told you that you could solve a huge class of complex survival problems through almost instantaneous intuition, you'd think I was crazy.
Even if it was only accurate 60% of the time, it's better than flipping a coin and could save you critical minutes or seconds.
Emotions are the equivalent to CPU instructions that can run complex routines in a single time quantum instead of needing to build it up through a chain of data flow (ie thinking) just they aren't perfectly reproducible or accurate because IRL is complex.
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No shit, Sherlock.
But I've done the same with college kids. They really don't know how to respond because .
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