• JoShmoe@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    To see McCarthy calling for an impeachment, despite a law the republicans themselves made to stop trump from getting impeached during his term, is comical. Literally elementary school logic.

    • Spike@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Do not think they do not recognize their own hypocrisy. It is a demonstration of power: “See, I can get away with it. Because I am in power.”

      • darq@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        This. To anyone who thinks this is the Republicans being hypocritical: They know. They do not care. They are lying to your face. Pointing out the hypocrisy does literally nothing because they. Do. Not. Care.

        • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Ugh. It’s time to post this Sartre quote again. I hate that it’s still relevant:

          “Never believe that [they] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [They] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

            • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz
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              1 year ago

              Call them out on a lie that undermines either a core part of their case or that damages their credibility in the eyes of anyone else listening.

              Your goal isn’t really to convince them to stop doing anything but to completely destroy their credibility, which takes away their ability to use rhetoric to get what they want.

              Addressing their motives works too.

              You have to be very, very hard-nosed about it and be willing to wield that banhammer on sight, or, in the real world, be willing to exercise power to drive them away, but if you can or if you can convince someone else in the audience with that kind of power to do so, you’ll usually be straight.

              I do this shit all the time with dickheads here on Lemmy. You’d be surprised how effective calling them out on a lie is.