Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris because voters who were concerned about the economy did what they often do—punish the incumbent party during the election.
During a visit to a clients family home, I heard his younger sisters bashing their homework assignment because the teacher wanted them to give positive arguments for dropping the nukes on Japan in addition to arguments for not dropping them. I knew I got taught propaganda long ago when I was there but damn that caught me off guard.
I thought that was actually a typical thing done in debating teams, too. Take a position, defend it, then, you might have to then take the exact opposite position and try with all your might to legitimately defend that position.
I wonder what the class was for. There is also the notion of steelmanning and maybe it was about that. I guess it all depends on what the point of the exercise was. I could see it actually being useful instruction.
I’m assuming this is in the context of WWII? How is it propaganda? This sounds like a decent assignment not to try to morally justify the dropping of atomic bombs, but to build (and possibly dismiss) the arguments use for doing so. It can be a long walk, but there were massive geopolitical implication for both for and against at the time. Again, it isn’t a moral argument but an education that there are, for better or worse, people in the world that held both views.
During a visit to a clients family home, I heard his younger sisters bashing their homework assignment because the teacher wanted them to give positive arguments for dropping the nukes on Japan in addition to arguments for not dropping them. I knew I got taught propaganda long ago when I was there but damn that caught me off guard.
I thought that was actually a typical thing done in debating teams, too. Take a position, defend it, then, you might have to then take the exact opposite position and try with all your might to legitimately defend that position.
I wonder what the class was for. There is also the notion of steelmanning and maybe it was about that. I guess it all depends on what the point of the exercise was. I could see it actually being useful instruction.
I’m assuming this is in the context of WWII? How is it propaganda? This sounds like a decent assignment not to try to morally justify the dropping of atomic bombs, but to build (and possibly dismiss) the arguments use for doing so. It can be a long walk, but there were massive geopolitical implication for both for and against at the time. Again, it isn’t a moral argument but an education that there are, for better or worse, people in the world that held both views.