#Argument

Farage has shown absolutely no loyalty

Farage has shown absolutely no loyalty to hundreds of hard working party members across the country, who have dedicated themselves to building Reform up to be an election winning machine, on the contrary. he treats them with contempt, regularly casting them aside to be replaced by ‘yes men’ who are willing to display sycophantic loyalty.

Donna Edmunds (via BBC)

#argument #DonnaEdmunds #loyalty #NigelFarage #yesMen #TheySaidThat_

2025-05-22

To anyone who hopes for a knockdown drag out argument with me. Here’s my response - I use this on Threads a lot. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
#ego #zen #argument #enlightenment #Bodhi #falseself

A Zen student asks his master for the secret to happiness. He is told “Never argue with anyone”. The student disagrees. The master replies “You are right”. The student then believes the master does not know the answer.
サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo
2025-05-17
2025-05-12

#argument
Chances are no....

RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸RationalizedInsanity
2025-05-09

Some about online that will make you look WAY smarter, and be a whole lot less annoying -

Instead of demanding someone's sources, find a source that proves your own point.

This does four things-

1. It educates you on the topic better, so you have fresh info to them.

2. It makes you less ignorant in case you were wrong.

3. It makes it harder for them to defend something incorrect.

4. It doesn't annoy the shit out of someone who knew what they were talking about.

2025-05-06

"Aber #Hamburg verliert #Arbeitsplatze, wenn es #werbefrei wird!"

Nein, das ist ganz sicher nicht der Fall.

Erstens geht es bei unserem Plan nur um Regulierung. Wir werden Außenwerbung nicht abschaffen, sondern nur wieder auf ein erträgliches Maß zu reduzieren.

#Niemand braucht zappelnde Bildschirme an jeder #Bushaltestelle.

#Argument #Arbeitsplätze #Hamburg #Werbefrei #Wirtschaft #Außenwerbung #Werbung #Metropole

サファイア・ネオsapphire_neo
2025-05-04
WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-23

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

We must distinguish between a mood and its intellectual expression. There is no arguing with mood; it can be changed by some fortunate event, or by a change in our bodily condition, but it cannot be changed by argument.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/763…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #analysis #argument #emotion #mood #rationality #thought

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-21

A quotation from Addison

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. I who hear a thousand coffee-house debates every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the first three sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-09-05), The Spectator, No. 476

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/39292…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #addison #argument #clarity #communication #debate #dispute #obfuscation #rhetoric #understanding #wordiness

2025-04-21

@ndrs @tagesschau

Das ist absolut ein . Die , dass der/die :in den die vorschreibt (oder vorschreiben will) ist das wirklich Absurde. Sowas liest man öfter hier. Lineares ist heute nur noch ein kleiner Teil der . In unseren ist alles geregelt. Belassen wir es dabei.

2025-04-14

🔗 How to win an argument with a toddler

You can’t.

If you’re regularly having arguments with well-informed people of goodwill, you will probably ‘lose’ half of them–changing your mind based on what you’ve learned. If you’re not changing your mind, it’s likely you’re not actually having an argument (or you’re hanging out with the wrong people.) While it can be fun to change someone else’s position, it’s also a gift to learn enough to change ours.

The toddler puts on a show of having an argument, but they are holding a tantrum in reserve. If they ‘win’ the argument, no tantrum is needed. If they lose, they can tell themselves that they tried but the other person deserved the tantrum because they didn’t listen.

How to win an argument with a toddler | Seth’s Blog

https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/

Poignant reminder to everyone on the internet and now the podcasts claiming to “have an argument” to chase truth.

#argument #Life #philosophy

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2025-04-03
Wisdom in Spacewisdom@c.im
2025-03-30

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais

#Wisdom #Quotes #PierreBeaumarchais #Argument

#Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

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