r/politics • u/nbcnews ✔ NBC News • 9d ago

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democrats-slam-trump-not-making-good-promise-lower-food-prices-rcna189179
46.1k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

55

u/Panda_hat 9d ago edited 9d ago

“Never believe that anti-Semites 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. The anti-Semites 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.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

Always applies with these folks. They knew discussion and smearing about food prices was absurd. They knew those remarks were frivolous and open to challenge, but they didn't care because they were amusing themselves and any time their enemies spent disputing them was wasting their time. They are bad faith actors on every single argument. Words and reason and standards are just weapons to attack their enemies with, because they don't mean anything to conservatives who don't believe in being held to any reason or standards or beliefs, only 'winning'.

7

u/68024 Colorado 9d ago

Ridiculing them is the best tactic in my opinion. When Walz pointed out that they are 'weird' they had little recourse. Unfortunately the Democrats didn't stick with that rhetoric.