See also, NATO v US Illegal Aggression Campaigns: "NATO strives to secure a lasting peace in Europe and North America...", show US legislators a map. #rhetoric #youvotedfordisinformation

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All about chinks through the closing door. #Dreyfus #Winking #Rhetoric

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#Legal #Rhetoric #Belief

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language. I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth when I only mean truth-talk, the language translation of truth, to which we have no unmediated access. We don’t debate truth bare. We debate truth-talk, which is already dressed in rhetoric, grammar, power, and selective emphasis.

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language.

I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth […]

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If you are still on YouTube and enjoy critical-thinking analysis, it's worth viewing https://www.youtube.com/@FramingLogic

I know there are flaws, but I think it is helpful to be reminded of the logical fallacies, and cognitive biases, and rhetorical approaches that external actors are using […]

A Theory of Literate Action > With the emergence of literacy as part of human cultural evolution, new kinds of relations and activities formed that have created structures of participation in larger and more distant organizations, relying on accumulating knowledge and mediated through genre-shaped texts. It is for these activity contexts that individuals must produce texts, mobilizing the resources of language, and it is within these contexts that the texts will have their effect.

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#POV It is a truism that #language shapes #politics through strategic #rhetoric, #metaphors, and #wordchoice. But does invoking entrenched national #stereotypes make #armedconflict inevitable?Whether one is on the side of the “mad mullahs” or the “Great Satan”, the point is simple: watch your words.

THEME 1 — THE ILLUSION OF RIGHTS: Why “ALL RIGHTS RESERVED” Only Works If You Can Risk Homelessness SECTION 1 — THE PROMISELeases open with language that sounds protective:“This is a binding legal document. If not understood, legal counsel should be consulted before signing.”“This Lease shall be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado.”“This Lease shall not waive any rights provided by statute.” The message is clear:You have rights.You have protections.You have recourse. SECTION 2 — THE REALITYInside the same document, those rights collapse. Examples from Loveland leases: “Tenant accepts the Premises in such condition.” “Your promise to pay rent is independent, absolute, without right to offset.”

#homelessness #lease #rhetoric

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2. Clink Of Lite

Poetry

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Poetry

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When the ask is the answer,
the question is unambiguous.
...
haiku: rhetorical deflection

tell me a question
he appealed ambiguously
the ask is the answer

#poem #poetry #haiku #haikufeels #appeal
#rhetoric #rhetorical #ambiguous

In #Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’, we hear of ‘Polycrates, who delivered a panegyric to the mice that gnawed through the bow strings of an invading Assyrian army.’

Sam Leith (
@questingvole.bsky.social), ‘You Talkin’ to Me? #Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’ p. 30.

A Rhetoric of Literate Action > The first four chapters of this volume provide a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward. The next four chapters then consider how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer’s motives as the text begins to take form. The final four chapters provide more specific advice of the work to be accomplished in bringing the text to final form and how to manage the work and one’s own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively. The advice of this book is for the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, who now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing.

📕 A Rhetoric of Literate Action (A free, 161-page book from 2013)

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…and the story of the Mizrahi Jewish “Kuwaity Brothers” music group to demonstrate the devastating efficacy of cultural erasure, making a case for the connection between the decimation of Mizrahi Jews’ presence and legacy in Iraq and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine.

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Constructions and Figures Symposium at the University of Waterloo 28 & 29 May 2026 featuring Jeanne Fahnestock, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social and @congramqueen.bsky.social. #rhetoric, #linguistics, #constructiongrammar @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uw-english.bsky.social

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Tulsi Gabbard's Iran Tweet Resurfaces Following High-Profile Resignation Gabbard's tweet resurfaced following the resignation of the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday.

Indeed, so much for all the #rhetoric about avoiding #foreign #wars My take on faux anti-#war #fascists through #history here nkozphoto.com/index.php/2025/06/26/fau...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascism

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Tulsi Gabbard's Iran Tweet Resurfaces Following High-Profile Resignation Gabbard's tweet resurfaced following the resignation of the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday.

Indeed, so much for all the #rhetoric about avoiding #foreign #wars www.huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-... My take on faux anti- #war #fascists through #history here nkozphoto.com/index.php/20... #mussolini #fascism #gabbard #TulsiGabbard #iran #iranwar #trump #bolton #libya #italy #maga

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