Chamblee54

Rhetoric Butler

Posted in Library of Congress, Weekly Notes by chamblee54 on May 12, 2025


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here is today’s abbreviated monday morning reader. One loose thought: The problem is toxic rhetoric, and the performative arguments that go with it. Logical fallacies, hypocrisy, authoritarian bullying … The picture below is an “Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with D-guard Bowie knife, musket, and revolver.” · The facebook photograph: “Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with D-guard Bowie knife, musket, and revolver.” · in today’s act of pointless, feel good activism, I am putting this on my facebook wall. · @robertwrighter Breaking the Silence is a group of Israeli military veterans who try to call attention to crimes and moral outrages committed as part of the occupation of Palestinian territories. That can make them unpopular in some parts of Israeli society, and I’ve long admired their courage and commitment. @BtSIsrael Right now, it seems the Israeli army is wiping out the village of Khalet a-Duqayqa— evicting families, destroying homes, water wells, terraces, and solar panels. In the photo, you can see a sentence written on the wall of a house now being demolished: “Let me live my life.” A simple, human plea — and under decades of brutal occupation, even that is too much to ask · This is the least helpful video on youtube. I had always wondered how to pronounce Robert Mapplethorpe. Is it maple, or apple? This video has speakers saying it both ways. FWIW, the best answer I can get is apple. · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The picture on facebook was taken June 24, 1949. “Gone with the Wind” tenth anniversary” · This is a repost from 2010. … · Ira Hayes was a native American, from the Akimel O’odham. Their land is on both sides of the border between Arizona and Sonora. Ira Hayes was one of the men raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. This is his story. · one of us is a rotisserie chicken · Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in March 1939. “Negro boy drinking “milk” made of flour and water. He was sick and his mother, the wife of a sharecropper, had given him this as a delicacy. Near Marshall, Texas” · This is a repost from May, 2024. The Israel story keeps getting worse, in practically every way. … · I knew two things on October 7. There was going to be a lot of killling. There would be a tsunami of bad faith rhetoric to justify this mass homicide. Both things have been true beyond my worst nightmare. · This is a repost from 2024. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook picture in October 1939. “Sampling room, cotton compress, part of compress. Port of Houston, Texas · selah

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