1. Pick a single part of the other's argument & attack it.
Ie. Your girlfriend is accusing you of cheating with Anita several times. Focus on the several times, tell her she is lying: "it was only one time". Hold it there. Don't budge.
2. Pick a related but irrelevant topic & attack it.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Focus on the shouting. Tell her she should not shout at you. Say, "you don't respect me". Hold it there. Don't budge. She'll get defensive, you've won.
3. Extrapolate the proportions of the other's argument.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Exaggerate the scope of her argument.
Say, "I know you will say I also cheated with Joanne"
She'll get defensive. Home run!
4. Impose a position the other does not hold through rhetorical questions.
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
Say, "so you are calling me a loser?"
Hold it. Don't budge.
5. Repudiate! Repudiate!
i.e. Your girlfriend is shouting at you for cheating with Anita.
She has the evidence.
Deny! Deny! Deny!
It renders the argument inconclusive. That little positive doubt is your silver lining. People like to deceive themselves.
Caveat: I do not condone, practice or encourage cheating/promiscuity/adultery in any form or shape.
The examples invoked were purely for learning purposes.
& those up there are in fact logical fallacies dumbed down.
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If the primary goal is to earn followers on Twitter, I think the route is quite simple. Be as sensational as you can, comment on the trending/charged topics, with sustained grammatical flair. Originality is not a prerequisite.
If the primary goal is quality of interactions, originality will be demanded. Optimism is a prerequisite. Individuals have to deal with a lot in their daily lives, they do not come looking for another stressor in the form of tweets. They avoid sensationalism. They want discourse.
One's credentials may also come in handy. Unfortunately, it invites unsieved quantity as well as quality. People want to feel close to power. They will say anything to get its attention. The ceaseless pursuit of vicarious adulation. If positivity does not work, they will insult.
No. I disagree. @CordNasa can't abdicate its "role" to the country because it isn't answerable to the country (The venerable majority); but its supporters & manifesto. To hold the opposition accountable for the country, you must 1st afford it licit hegemony over the country.
We are in this hole because of an administration of brazen neanderthals & an equally venal citizenry who put them there, secretly identify with the fecklessness & do not wish to suffer the individual cost of removing the administration there. So they hide in "the opposition".
Like all political movements, the opposition had a goal. It certainly was not to remain in the opposition forever. Let those who feel slighted take up the mantle, form their parties, rally their people. Laying down lives for political ideals is not the preserve of @CordNasa.
You worry more about your people than you worry for self: About your parents' upkeep; About your siblings' education. It dulls your investment in romance. You endure immeasurable abuse at work. They don't understand - your colleagues & friends. I understand. I do.
Women will ask you, "why do you push me away?" They do not understand, that it is not just your life you are living. That is a privilege foreign to you. That if you pursued love, you'd take lives - the lives of the people who gave you breath. So you must sacrifice love, for life.
African son,
That is your lot. A legacy of poverty invites trepidation. You will always live on your toes. One foot inside, one foot outside. Your nights will be longer, & colder. Your days hotter. Vulnerability won't save you - not for long anyway. That phone call will come!
I knew Alema - my wife - was a bad woman the day she caught me with my sugar mummy & she beat the living daylights out of the poor lady. Then we had to eat & feed our kids leaves for two months because the sugar mummy fired me. Be careful the women you marry yoh!...
Then she left for her father's. Leaving me & the kids behind. They called me to explain myself. I went there with Jimmy - My very wise friend. Jimmy said: "if you love something, you let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours". We all clapped.
That night, I came back with Alema. She was still fuming, but I was fuming more. What kind of mother deprives her children of beef and good life? I had a mind to send her back to her people. But you know me, a tolerant husband. She does not deserve me.