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Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Le Gish Gallop en bref. Très intéressant!

Ne vous laissez pas impressionner par les petits futés qui utilisent cette technique et battez-les a leur propre jeu!

#debate #gishgallop

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Gish gallop
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The Gish gallop (/'gI] 'gælap/) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available. Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper's arguments at the expense of their quality.

^ Strategy
During a typical Gish gallop, the galloper confronts an opponent with a rapid series of specious arguments, half-truths,
misrepresentations and outright lies, making it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of the debate. 2 Each point
raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably longer to refute than to assert. The technique wastes an opponent's time and may cast doubt on the opponent's debating ability for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved, or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics. (31
The difference in effort between making claims and refuting them is known as Brandolini's law[4] or informally "the bullshit asymmetry principle".
Another example is firehose of falsehoods.

^ Countering the Gish gallop
Mehdi Hasan, a British journalist, suggests using three steps to beat the Gish gallop:[5]
1. Because there are too many falsehoods to address, it is wise to choose one as an example. Choose the weakest, dumbest, most ludicrous argument that the galloper has presented and tear that argument to shreds ("the weak point rebuttal").
2. Do not budge from the issue or move on until having decisively destroyed the nonsense and clearly made the counter point.
3. Call out the strategy by name, saying: "This is a strategy called the 'Gish Gallop'-do not be fooled by the flood of nonsense you have just heard."
Generally, it is more difficult to use the Gish gallop in a structured debate than a free-form one. 61 lf a
debater is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique may be countered by pre-empting and refuting the opponent's commonly used arguments before the opponent has an opportunity to launch into the Gish gallop.l7]

November 12, 2024 at 2:28 AM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Every time.

Image show the front wheel of a bicycle locked to a bike rack. The rest of the bike has been stolen.

November 11, 2024 at 5:59 PM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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"Pierre Poilièvre se dit prêt à lier le financement fédéral des projets de transports collectifs à une obligation de bâtir en hauteur le long des tracés."

Ça va finir en quartier dysfonctionnels comme Griffintown et Solar Uniquartier. Pas d'école ou de garderie. Fait pour les professionnels.

November 11, 2024 at 3:27 PM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Bien d’accord avec le pharmachien là dessus. La présence de ce dude n’a absolument rien apporté à la discussion. En fait ç’aurait été beaucoup plus constructif s’il n’avait pas été là.

Mention spéciale à Mona de Grenoble pour:
« On n’ira pas là mon p’tit coeur. »
😂😂😂
#TLMEP

November 11, 2024 at 4:31 AM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Un des 11 bénéficiaires des blocs d’énergies attribués par Fitzgibbon. #polqc #noel

November 13, 2023 at 12:02 AM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Il est là le gaspillage d'argent.

On va commencer à se fier aux études ou en commander jusqu'à ce que la réponse plaise au gouvernement?

#tramway #polqc #polmun

www.journaldequebec.com/2023/11/10/l...

November 10, 2023 at 10:13 AM

Bruno-Pierre Jobin

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Le saviez-vous? Lévis a déjà eu un tramway au début du 20e siècle. Imaginez que nous ayons conservé et entretenu les rails, nous serions en bien meilleure posture aujourd'hui...