Thank you for your submission, but we already have an excellent example.
charonn0
joined 1 year ago
They look like they're posing for their album cover.
Because it's not intended to be persuasive. The point is to make the speaker feel good, and look good in the eyes of those that already agree. It's fundamentally selfish, self serving, and dishonest.
"One cannot reign innocently... Every king is a rebel and a usurper."
There's a theory floating around the internet that these bizarre climate protests are actually meant to discredit the climate movement.
Next? Hell, that kind of thing is old news already.
It was an earlier time!
It's a shame since it was such a lively and fun place for about 6 months.
This sort of empty rhetoric is what OP is talking about.
The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.
Chalmers: People send thank you's for lay offs?
Pichai: Yes.
Chalmers: May I see one?
Pichai: No.
You're so intent on defending your underlying point that you don't seem to realize that your underlying point is not in fact the point here. It's your technique, or lack thereof, in making your point that is being criticized.