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NJCher

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3. Yes, there are those tactics

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 04:06 AM

8 hrs ago

And then there were the kind employed by Rush Limbaugh, who didn’t employ logic or reasoning but who depended on ridicule and demonizing.

He couldn’t do any in depth argumentation because, gasp, he might have to read.

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove 10 hrs ago OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy 9 hrs ago #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher 8 hrs ago #3

Limbaugh's choice of logical fallacies was argumentum ad hominum (personal insults) no_hypocrisy 8 hrs ago #4

Not to mention NJCher 8 hrs ago #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex 3 hrs ago #9

He's dead. Iggo 9 hrs ago #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove 8 hrs ago #5

So? niyad 7 hrs ago #8

I saw a booth dedicated to him at a Fall Festival in western PA yesterday Orrex 2 hrs ago #12

He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media SunImp 8 hrs ago #6

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex 1 hr ago #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny 2 hrs ago #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball 2 hrs ago #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex 1 hr ago #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede 1 hr ago #15