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  1. We’re fine! Everyone needs a new diff at 30k miles.
  2. Like 600k dead kids and millions of starving and suffering people around the world, I ain’t reading all that.
  3. Don’t drop that shit!
  4. So then what happens? We spend a few years to find out they are protected but not bound? Seriously, in situations like this people have many options when it comes time to seek justice. Why on earth would they choose the law?
  5. When you’ve already iced 600k kids and then celebrated it with cake, does it make this one harder to enjoy @Anastasis?
  6. I didn’t. That’s one of the shocking realities of brand loyalty. Loyalty is very durable and brand loyal people are, by and large, willing to put up with injury. Isn’t that weird? And yet it plays out that way over and over, at individual and population level scales. You can hurt them, over and over, and then the sun shines, and people forget.
  7. Of course not. What’s a few hundred thousand dead kids, right?
  8. Their economic status quo has been getting worse for five decades- that’s how brand loyalty works. It’s an elasticity killer. That’s literally how you measure the value of the brand: how much more loyal customers are willing to pay, just for the brand. There are only a couple of things that can damage brand loyalty: insult, indifference, and incoherence. What’s happening to the Republican Party right now is all three- they keep saying “we’re winning,” when they are losing, and they are speaking to their least loyal (ie most persuadable)customers in a way that ignores their concerns and tells them explicitly that their values don’t matter. Democrats do that constantly of course, but at the moment, they aren’t in charge so they don’t have to defend themselves.
  9. Yeah, but Harris really doesn’t have it. Not like Clinton or Bush II or Obama or Trump, anyway. Trump is horrible but he’s got authentic swag. That’s why he got along so well with Mamdani. Game recognizes game. I think you and I see the behaviors of the voting public differently. You’re describing voters as semi-rational actors making a direct connection between the tangible impact of policy and the messaging around it. I don’t think that’s how this works right now. I see the voting public as a market where about 85% of the buyers have near-total brand loyalty, and the ability to take and hold share among the remaining 15% is a function of wholistic marketing execution and discipline that is maintained through consistency across all four Ps: relevant Product, at the right Price, with the right Promotion, for the right People. A fractured party is going to struggle with any of that.
  10. No. Young adult women win. That is the singular lesson of revolutions in western societies since the Renaissance: whoever has the preponderance of young women behind them will win. It’s not always for good- the grass roots of the Nazi movement, for example, was powered in many ways by the mothers of young children. But in a revolutionary moment a majority of young adult women will coalesce around the eventual winners. And that’s not what is happening here. So what we are looking at right now is just a chaotic interim step. Towards what, I have no idea.
  11. That’s fine as far as it goes, but they hate themselves too. There are historical forces at work here, and they are actors but not agents, and they ultimately won’t be beneficiaries either. Look, we agree that the Pax Americana is over and the American Empire is in terminal decline. Fine. But even though we also agree that the moral arc of the universe doesn’t incline towards justice, it absolutely inclines towards swag, and those dorks have none. So take heart. I don’t know who will be left standing when the dust settles, but it won’t be them.
  12. JD Vance makes Mike Dukakis seem like Steve McQueen
  13. Well I’m not a B School Prof, but after a few decades in private enterprises ranging from my own startup SaaS company to a global enterprise of 300k+ employees, I’ve actually got a really good understanding of the reality of internal controls at private companies. I think you would be very surprised. If anything, the public sector is probably a little better.
  14. No. That’s your Helsinki Syndrome talking. What I “imagine will happen” is that the Republican house caucus will continue to fracture without a captive Democratic minority to stick it together, because the majority can’t operate in the environment they created. Meanwhile:
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