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the5avage 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Defensive Communication (1961)

It's quite old but german philosopher Schopenhauer wrote about it in "The art of being right"

He talks about dirty tricks to win an argument regardless of the content

You can easily see that behavior in politics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right

russfink 5 months ago [–]

Number 14 is “Claim Victory Despite Defeat” - coincidentally, there was a lot of “14/88” being thrown around in recent weeks in USA politics.

daveguy 5 months ago | [–]

And a metric shit-ton more than that thrown around in 2020.

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