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Read the 2016 Democratic Platform. Then listen to all the rage and hatred spewed forth by Democrats. Their actions speak a lot louder than their words.
Actions are still more effective as an indicator of trustworthiness than words, which is what the aphorism means. Your question has a different meaning though, which is why I think the poll question is unanswerable. But, I understand the spirit behind the question.
Obviously Actions but now a days words seem to be the most powerful out there. I remember g rowing up, being told " Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you". Yeah, today that is a load of crock apparently. Man how everything has shifted..
Obviously Actions but now a days words seem to be the most powerful out there. I remember g rowing up, being told " Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you". Yeah, today that is a load of crock apparently. Man how everything has shifted..
Actions are still more effective as an indicator of trustworthiness than words, which is what the aphorism means. Your question has a different meaning though, which is why I think the poll question is unanswerable. But, I understand the spirit behind the question.
This is a very important consideration! -- Today, information and digital interactions are so pervasive that people morph from their real lives into an online persona or existence. They perceive that they are maintaining real friendships on Facebook; holding real conversations on Twitter; hearing the unbiased truth on news editorials; engaging in meaningful personal interactions while texting; socializing via online video games - and being 'open minded' when they read differing internet opinions.
As a result, truth, reality and actions (what is really happening) ...are subtly replaced in importance by how things sound and appear - and what others say about them online. In the process, people lose the ability to think critically or deeply about real life issues and to effectively communicate with real people.
This is why there is widespread confusion about whether words or actions speak louder ... or if actions or truth are even relevant or matter anymore. --- I remember a line in a movie that typifies this condition. A man caught cheating on his girlfriend, demands to know, "Are you going to simply believe what you see with your own two eyes ... or what I'm standing right here and telling you?"
This is a very important consideration! -- Today, information and digital interactions are so pervasive that people morph from their real lives into an online persona or existence. They perceive that they are maintaining real friendships on Facebook; holding real conversations on Twitter; hearing the unbiased truth on news editorials; engaging in meaningful personal interactions while texting; socializing via online video games - and being 'open minded' when they read differing internet opinions.
As a result, truth, reality and actions (what is really happening) ...are subtly replaced in importance by how things sound and appear - and what others say about them online. In the process, people lose the ability to think critically or deeply about real life issues and to effectively communicate with real people.
This is why there is widespread confusion about whether words or actions speak louder ... or if actions or truth are even relevant or matter anymore. --- I remember a line in a movie that typifies this condition. A man caught cheating on his girlfriend, demands to know, "Are you going to simply believe what you see with your own two eyes ... or what I'm standing right here and telling you?"
I truly believe that "actions speak louder than words"....
Unfortunately in this day and age, politicians have proved that words speak louder than actions...that's very easy to see. Before we vote we are sucked in by those words which so many times prove to be just that...words...and nothing more.
It should be illegal to make promises you have no intention of keeping just to sound good, and to gain votes.
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