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Cross_The_Rubicon [S] 83 points ago +87 / -4

Being able to illicit strong feelings is better than any logical argument.

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Fignugent 65 points ago +66 / -1

only because there are more morons in the world than rational people

if your metric is having more people on your side, you'll get more with feelings just because you'll have a shitload of morons

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Cross_The_Rubicon [S] 33 points ago +37 / -4

Doesn’t matter, the right and nationalists must win. The high road and facts have not worked and obviously don’t work.

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Fignugent 16 points ago +24 / -8

nah, i'm gonna stick with facts

you do you

just know that i shit on fake news even if its made with the intent to help my own side

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rooftoptendie 36 points ago +36 / -0

The whole point of this that is so profound is that we need to learn to employ rhetoric that evokes emotion. When we do we will have the facts to back it up. We need to learn that you don't have to choose one over the other.

Facts AND feelings.

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LowIQCrazyMika 5 points ago +5 / -0

Left cater to feelings, the right cater to feelings. That's how the whole damn political system works. Why the lying ass politicians on the left and right come on TV and lie? That's tapping into people's feelings. Not facts. The whole national anthem kneeling the left does is for feelings, and what did the right do? Take that kneeling thing and made it fit the political right narrative to trigger political right's feelings.
Both side do it in different ways lol...

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Cozette 4 points ago +6 / -2

Perhaps you're mistakenly conflating facts with truth and feelings with lies? Not all facts are true and not all feelings are false. In fact the greatest Truths from my experience can only be experienced by feelings; they're inexpressable. I call people who are disconnected from their hearts and who disdain people who are connected NeoPharisees. I share Christs opinion of them and who they serve.

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AmericanMason1 3 points ago +3 / -0

Correct.

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Nikola_S1 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why not both? You convince rational people with facts and irrational people by feelings.

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LowIQCrazyMika 2 points ago +2 / -0

Left cater to feelings, the right cater to feelings. That's how the whole damn political system works. Why the lying ass politicians on the left and right come on TV and lie? That's tapping into people's feelings. Not facts. The whole national anthem kneeling the left does is for feelings, and what did the right do? Take that kneeling thing and made it fit the political right narrative to trigger political right's feelings.
Both side do it in different ways lol..

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Cozette 2 points ago +2 / -0

The greatest realities from my experience were feelings too huuuge to be reduced to words much less the narrow prison of "facts".

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gimmeabreak 2 points ago +2 / -0

I notice that people seem to be using words interchangeably that are not actually synonymous. Anything that is a reality, by definition is factual. Feelings are not realities, they are emotions, hunches, potentialities. Feelings can be a harbinger of realities and can even manifest themselves into reality, but the two are not interchangeable terms. There is no doubt that feelings can sometimes become great realities, but once they have become a reality they are then provably factual and are no longer mere feelings.

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Projectedsoulimage -1 points ago +1 / -2

That's what the Jews kept telling themselves as they got on the cattle cars

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RTLowery 1 point ago +1 / -0

Watch Scott Adam's first time on JRE, where he breaks down Trump's success. He basically explains that EVERYONE behaves emotionally (even those of us who consider ourselves primarily rational) and that Trump brilliantly communicates with that in mind which is what makes him so persuasive. It's very convincing. Don't take my word for it; listen for yourself.

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Tallsie 1 point ago +1 / -0

Hint, there are. We have evolved just barely enough intellectually to create the world around you. And even our smartest most logical people ever, only get one or two good singers within the span of their life. Our species is retarded, just slightly less than the rest, never forget.

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Blue_Country_Refugee 1 point ago +1 / -0

I dont know how you could look at modern society and make that claim. "Just enough intellectually to create the world around me"? Well the world around me has machines that fly to the moon. That's not "retarded".

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1in1024th 6 points ago +6 / -0

I keep saying, the left is better at marketing.

We need to get inside customers heads better

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ramennov 5 points ago +6 / -1

If "better" means more persuasive, then sure.

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cook_does 2 points ago +2 / -0

People will kill based on emotions, people only get better based on facts

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47urOFH3d 2 points ago +2 / -0

Especially feelings that making, or even listening to, an argument is a sign of evil.