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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-04-05 04:20 AM
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This is how freepers argue.
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From Butterflies & Wheels. Go to this website to see details on each tactic and show it to the next freeper who invades your blogging:

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoric.php

The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric

Here you'll find top tips for besting your enemies. As employed by the world's best woolly-thinkers. Learn, for example: how to play the 'biological reductionist' card to maximum effect; how 'language games' can help you out of a sticky situation; and how lucky it is that 'truth' is relative to particular discourses (especially yours).

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Entries

Be Courageous
Be dismissive
Cheers and catcalls
Claiming is Succeeding
Clumsy sarcasm
Define words in your own special way
Develop sudden hearing loss
Do a Procrustes
Embrace contradiction
Emotional Blackmail
Evasive Tactics
Fly under the radar
Go Ahead, Contradict Yourself
Histrionics
Imply
Mention the Armchair
Moral One-upmanship
Pat yourself on the back
Pave With Good Intentions
Play the theory card
Pretend to be amused
Repetition
Say the methodology was flawed
Translate
Translate Even More When the Subject is Religion
Use 'Obscure' as a First Name
Use obscurity
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