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In reply to the discussion: I stand with President Obama [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)It's a vapid quotation with a picture of a political figure attached to it. There's no argument here. It's an appeal to emotion and blind loyalty and stirred patriotism or something.
Posts like this would be fine, if they existed in the context of a well-argued rationale for war that offered reasons, how it will be funded, clear goals, probability of success, etc. But they can't, so they don't. Instead, we get empty froth. And that is the quality of the vast majority of the appeals to war on this board. Appeals to authority. Appeals to emotion. Appeals to patriotism. Appeals to party. Garbage propaganda.
Yes, it is by definition an appeal to lockstep, because there is no argument here for any other type of agreement. It is a vapid propaganda poster, a bid to fall in line through loyalty and emotion.
And it's utter garbage.