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EdmondDantes_

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25. Name calling isn't the most persuasive rhetorical technique

Reply to yaesu (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 13, 2025, 02:08 PM

Nov 2025

Especially if you're going to follow it immediately by saying Trump's just going to do whatever he wants. If that's true and he has all the agency, then both choices were equally meaningless short of holding out until a theoretical veto proof majority.

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