Just for my own purposes, collecting four important things that I learned from others in recent years.
Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these four facts on my own, and I’m grateful to the people who revealed them.
1. Manweller’s Rule. Elections only count when they don’t count. Any election that reaches the wrong result will be prevented** or overturned. This expands to cover protests and other movements. A protest NEVER changes the mind of the ruler. Some protests are orchestrated BY the ruler to provide “justification” for an unpopular move the ruler wants to take.
2. Sucker Filter. Spam that seems utterly crazy is meant to filter out the people who think it’s crazy. The swindler only wants to cultivate suckers who think the idea is possible or worth trying.
3. Sort of parallel to the Sucker Filter. When political operatives urge you to “Tell Senator Smith that his new law is bad”, they aren’t talking to you. They’re talking to Senator Smith’s operatives and staffers, trying to persuade them that a movement against the law exists.
4. Naomi Wolf’s revolutionary translation of the previously nonsensical “image of God” in Genesis.
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** Elections are prevented by defunding or tinfoiling incorrect candidates. Occasionally the candidate is too popular to tinfoil, so the election has to be overturned, as DNC did to Bernie in 2016.
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