Wednesdays with The Village; avoiding Straw Man arguments; 2/2/22
USExpat is enjoying a much needed vacation this week and I volunteered to take over the diary.I’m starting a series on how to identify and avoid badly reasoned arguments. Today’s episode will be...
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Logical Fallacies Bootcamp: Begging the Question
Good evenin’ all! This is the third installment of this series examining various logical fallacies and providing a few examples. All this is intended to help folks recognize when debating a point when...
View ArticleTruth Brigade: Cloaked Science Examples
No Truth Sandwiches today. Just science and facts. Genuine science about fake science. When you see something that sounds like it can’t be true, or must be true regardless, always remember that if you...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies Bootcamp: Poisoning the Well
Greetings again, fellow travelers!Today’s edition of this ongoing series exploring logical fallacies examines “Poisoning the Well.” Let’s jump right in (pun intended) and get to it, eh? Oh, by the...
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Critical thinking: News Literacy
Greeting, greetings, fellow travelers!Some of you have been following my recent series, Logical Fallacies Bootcamp, on common logical fallacies. The next installment will be on the No True Scotsman...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies Bootcamp: No True Scotsman!
Hello folks, and welcome to yet another installment of Logical Fallacies Bootcamp! This series seeks to enlighten folk about common logical fallacies both formal and informal, so that they can...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies Bootcamp: Ad Hominem
Welcome, welcome, to another edition of Logical Fallacies Bootcamp! This series seeks to explain some common logical fallacies, both formal and informal, that one runs across on the internet and often...
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New Strategies and the Information Wars
The Republicans have in recent years pursued a calculated mass psychological policy to increase turmoil, racism, and every other form of bias and division in America. They have calculated that this...
View ArticleYou too can give a rally speech! Here are some basic points to help make it...
As 2022 ramps up into what I expect will be a crazy year for organizing, I wanted to share some of what I know about public speaking with those of you with little to no experience who may find it...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies Bootcamp: Special Pleading
Greetings, everyone! I’ve been a little behind of late in getting diaries out of late, I returned officially to work last week after a month off due to major surgery and found that while I very much...
View ArticlePropaganda and the Age of Unreason (How the Republican Base Was Led into...
This piece is running in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran as the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, under the slogan, “Truth. For a change.”*************The...
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Public Relations, propaganda, and the art of the organized lie. ACM
How the propaganda of the PR Industry brainwashes the public and keeps capitalists in powerReality is constructed, publics are created, consent is manufacturedThe Coal Mine and Sigmund FreudLudlow...
View ArticleMessaging?? You want messaging??
Here’s messaging:When you vote for Democrats, you getGovernment funding for roads, bridges, infrastructureThe lowest unemployment rate in 100 yearsMillions more people with health insurancePolicies and...
View ArticleABUSE 101: Or, How To Think Like A Republican: Part One
Good evening, all. This could be the most important thing I ever write here.I have to admit that I don’t think it’s going to do a lick of good, either. I’ve been yattering on about this since almost...
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Wondering where your Donations are best spent, to #KeepTheHouse this MIDTERM...
Today, the Executive Director of the DemCast social media network, Nick Knudsen, put out a message which I believe will be of great interest to members of Daily Kos (both writers and readers, even...
View ArticleLogical Fallacies Bootcamp: Special Pleading
Greetings, everyone! I’ve been a little behind of late in getting diaries out of late, I returned officially to work last week after a month off due to major surgery and found that while I very much...
View ArticlePropaganda and the Age of Unreason (How the Republican Base Was Led into...
This piece is running in newspapers in the very red congressional district in which I ran as the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, under the slogan, “Truth. For a change.”*************The...
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Public Relations, propaganda, and the art of the organized lie. ACM
How the propaganda of the PR Industry brainwashes the public and keeps capitalists in powerReality is constructed, publics are created, consent is manufacturedThe Coal Mine and Sigmund FreudLudlow...
View ArticleMessaging?? You want messaging??
Here’s messaging:When you vote for Democrats, you getGovernment funding for roads, bridges, infrastructureThe lowest unemployment rate in 100 yearsMillions more people with health insurancePolicies and...
View ArticleABUSE 101: Or, How To Think Like A Republican: Part One
Good evening, all. This could be the most important thing I ever write here.I have to admit that I don’t think it’s going to do a lick of good, either. I’ve been yattering on about this since almost...
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