List of bad things Conservatives say about Trump.
Bad Things Conservatives Say About Trump
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The Social Dilemma Transcript – Main Arguments
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
Conservative’s Defense of Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion
Conservative's Defense of Amy Coney Barrett's Religion The post below provides evidence of selective perception. Specifically, the evidence of Selective Perception is the Conservative's defense of Amy Coney Barrett's religion. GOP Defends Amy Coney Barrett’s...
Modes of Persuasion
Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion The Greeks are good at a lot of stuff. Weddings. Smashing plates. Growing (and marinating) olives. But, unbeknownst to many, they also have a rich history in advertising. Before there was Ogilvy, there was...
Heritage Foundation Take on Fake News
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment< Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Mr. Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Stepman wrote In the wake of President Donald Trump’s...
How to Teach Civil Debate
How to Teach Civil Debate Every community confronts divisive times. A healthy community has figured out how to have disagreements without being disagreeable. So, a key skill is teaching how to have a civil debate. The civicsrenewalnetwork.org offers a range of...
Mediated Democracy – The Future of Political Agency
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
There is no Racism
Source, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/reaganmccarthy/2020/05/08/georgia-murder-arrest-n2568454 I feel so sorry for the family of this young man, apparently a very nice young man at that, but please, can we have a moratorium on calling every single death of anyone of...
A Stable Political System can be achieved using Fractal Thinking
A Stable Political System Can be Achieved Using fractal thinking Fractal Thinking Quotes "The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never...
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset”
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset” So often in preparing to communicate, we make a fundamental mistake: we enter a messenger mindset. Rather than establishing a clear goal and aiming to persuade our audience, we set out to inform, to update, to share. On this path, we end...
Goal of Communication is to Get What You Want
Communication is about getting what you want When I go to a restaurant and I give the waiter my order, I am communicating that I want the waiter to tell the Cook to make something and when it is ready to bring it to me. I communicate to get food. Getting what you...
How to Encourage Responsible and Meaningful Engagement in Public Discourse
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
Talking to Conservatives
This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
2 Examples of Trump's Racism in One Week that Should Scare Us All!
Two things happened this week that clearly point to Trump's Racism. And it should scare us all. Event 1 - The beating of a Black man at a Trump Rally. This event reminds me of the treatment of Jews prior to WWII. Event 2 - Trump tweeted out a patently false,...
Solution Aversion – Why people believe what they believe
The Learning Community is always interested in what causes some to refuse to learn. A recent study on this subject by Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay of Duke University adds an intriguing new idea to the mix: “solution aversion.” Motivated Reasoning is something the...
We need to Seek Understanding First in our efforts in finding Common Ground rather than fight
Bill Maher asked this question, "Do you think social media made us bigger assholes, or we were bigger assholes and it just exposed us as being that?" Maher posed the question to Nerdist Industries CEO, and host of @Midnight on Comedy Central, Chris Hardwick, after...
The Difficulty to Building Consensus is on clear display with Religion on Wikipedia. But there are solutions. Like Separating Facts and Conclusions, and transparency to the source.
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech…and why your words barely matter! Published on July 10, 2012 by Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, M.D. in Words Can Change Your Brain I’d like you to take a moment to experience the following sentence, taken from a...