Persuasion Techniques (ENGLISH, no prompt no context)

63 flashcards · Other · by Nicolas Stefanovitch

1. if you look at the hospitalizations, hospitalizations are rising steadily, with new admissions

   Justification: Appeal to fear, prejudice

2. These policy moves would all reflect “our values.”

   Justification: Appeal to Values

3. We do have the solutions.

   Call: Conversation killer (Thought-terminating cliché)

4. veryone believes in something, even nihilists.”

   Justification: Appeal to Values

5. for the thousands of others who couldn’t be there

   Justification: Appeal to Popularity (Bandwagon)

6. veryone believes in something,

   Justification: Appeal to Popularity (Bandwagon)

7. 90% of the population wanted to "approximate themselves to Russia."

   Justification: Appeal to Popularity (Bandwagon)

8. his country was not only fighting for “survival” but “also to be equal members of Europe.

   Justification: Appeal to Pity

9. he believes Russia will not succeed is because he has seen how "corrupt" Moscow is.

   Justification: Appeal to Authority

10. “must repent and modify our lifestyles”

    Justification: Appeal to Authority

11. he believes Russia will not succeed is because he has seen how "corrupt" Moscow is.

    Justification: Appeal to Authority

12. just because some people who don’t even have library cards

    Distraction: Switching topic (Whataboutism)

13. comedian-turned-president

    Distraction: Misrepresentation of Someone’s Position (Strawman)

14. trying to stamp out the progress we’ve made publicly to put the human in human rights

    Attack on Reputation: Questioning the Reputation (Smears/Poisoning the Well)

15. globalists

    Attack on Reputation: Name calling or labeling

16. his followers

    Attack on Reputation: Name calling or labeling

17. communist

    Attack on Reputation: Name calling or labeling

18. forgetting that he’s backed by the descendants of the very people who persecuted the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s

    Attack on Reputation: Guilt by Association (Reductio ad Hitlerum)

19. The Democrats are the party of pedophiles,

    Attack on Reputation: Guilt by Association (Reductio ad Hitlerum)

20. compared “climate deniers” in Congress to police officers who were equipped and trained to deal with mass shooters, but failed to stop the tragedy

    Attack on Reputation: Guilt by Association (Reductio ad Hitlerum)

21. we escaped the tyranny of MSM gatekeepers only to replace it with the tyranny of the “news of the day.”

    Attack on Reputation: Casting Doubt

22. Harry clearly misunderstands what the Supreme Court’s Roe ruling actually involved

    Attack on Reputation: Casting Doubt

23. but will it work?

    Attack on Reputation: Casting Doubt

24. iden once again blamed “Russia, Russia, Russia” for high gas prices, despite inflation already soaring before the war in Ukraine

    Attack on Reputation: Appeal to Hypocrisy (To quoque)

25. have supported global warming dogma (e.g., Al Gore, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos), the spot he chooses for his own home is right on the beach

    Attack on Reputation: Appeal to Hypocrisy (To quoque)

26. government-mandated vaccine policies and mandatory masking certainly do not comport with “our values.”

    Attack on Reputation: Appeal to Hypocrisy (To quoque)

27. some 90% of the population wanted to "approximate themselves to Russia."

    Distraction: Introducing irrelevant Information (Red Herring)

28. We must stand for American values

    Call: Slogans

29. Brussels Is Going To Become An Islamic Capital”

    Call: Slogans

30. he said he would wait for a final report, or see how the situation is resolved, before giving his opinion

    Call: Appeal to Time (Kairos)

31. At this rate, Brussels will become an Islamic capital in twenty years.

    Call: Appeal to Time (Kairos)

32. reduce to zero, as quickly as possible, net greenhouse gas emissions

    Call: Appeal to Time (Kairos)

33. a pronounced multimedia-supported lack of interest

    Attack on Reputation: Questioning the Reputation (Smears/Poisoning the Well)

34. we have the minority government

    Call: Conversation killer (Thought-terminating cliché)

35. SILENT NO MORE.

    Call: Conversation killer (Thought-terminating cliché)

36. liberty and justice for all

    Call: Slogans

37. A big part of Ukraine's population speaks Russian.

    Distraction: Introducing irrelevant Information (Red Herring)

38. he’s proven it many times

    Attack on Reputation: Questioning the Reputation (Smears/Poisoning the Well)

39. one more example of how “bad” migrant violence is “in the large cities of Western Europe; due to mass migration.”

    Distraction: Introducing irrelevant Information (Red Herring)

40. success for the Ukrainians causing him to be humiliated and that humiliation causing the people around him to get rid of him

    Simplification: Consequential Oversimplification (Slippery slope)

41. if the Ukrainians go along with the Russians, then there is no more Ukraine.

    Simplification: Consequential Oversimplification (Slippery slope)

42. including a demand to close Ukraine’s skies to Russian planes, which is almost certain to provoke a conflict between Moscow and NATO.

    Simplification: Consequential Oversimplification (Slippery slope)

43. the reason why the differences between the neighbors kept being settled on the ground

    Simplification: Causal Oversimplification

44. the only way it can end is with Ukrainian victory

    Simplification: False dilemma or No Choice (Black-and-white Fallacy, Dictatorship)

45. Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements

    Simplification: Causal Oversimplification

46. Ukraine needs and deserves candidate status without conditions.

    Simplification: False dilemma or No Choice (Black-and-white Fallacy, Dictatorship)

47. counties with a mask mandate had significantly higher COVID-19 case fatality rates than counties without a mask mandate.

    Simplification: Causal Oversimplification

48. steadily worse

    Manipulative Wording: Obfuscation, Intentional vagueness, Confusion

49. We will not take sides, we will continue being neutral, and help with whatever is possible

    Manipulative Wording: Obfuscation, Intentional vagueness, Confusion

50. steadily worse

    Manipulative Wording: Obfuscation, Intentional vagueness, Confusion

51. Islamization of Belgium

    Manipulative Wording: Loaded Language

52. weaponizing lies and disinformation

    Manipulative Wording: Loaded Language

53. a volatile arena

    Manipulative Wording: Loaded Language

54. At this rate, Brussels will become an Islamic capital in twenty years.

    Manipulative Wording: Exaggeration or Minimisation

55. for the thousands of others who couldn’t be there

    Manipulative Wording: Exaggeration or Minimisation

56. They now risk triggering a global nuclear demolition

    Manipulative Wording: Exaggeration or Minimisation

57. show second-class treatment of Ukraine and hurt feelings of Ukrainians

    Justification: Flag Waiving

58. they don't have an alternative.

    Simplification: False dilemma or No Choice (Black-and-white Fallacy, Dictatorship)

59. Get our own house in order first—that

    Justification: Flag Waiving

60. concerns—America doesn’t stand for “liberty and justice for all.”

    Justification: Flag Waiving

61. with the most vulnerable suffering most of all

    Justification: Appeal to fear, prejudice

62. flooding Ukraine with mercenaries and turning it into a big European Idlib.

    Justification: Appeal to fear, prejudice

63. This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm

    Justification: Appeal to Values