In Communist China, this women would have been afforded a pension, full health benefits, and housing five years earlier.

Which, I have heard, is also horrible

For clarity, how exactly would you define “retail” American politics?

Local campaigning for individual elected offices. The process of raising money, building up staff, getting yourself on the ballot, building name recognition, and GOTV.

I think of a physical location of a business in which a consumer goes to buy a physical product.

Campaigns work similarly. You need offices to coordinate staff. You need to balance budgets. And you need to sell the product by getting voters to show up at election stations.

how do we break that?

I don’t think this is something you can (or should be expected to) break. I think part of any successful project is encouraged adoption. Marketing - in a benign form - is about informing people of the project’s utility and the mechanism for obtaining it. There are numerous examples of beneficial marketing campaigns - the annual flu shot campaign, union drives, public notifications for new amenities and works. We periodically have billboards across the city notifying residents of performances at Miller Outdoor Theater - a free public theater that puts on shows every couple of weeks.

I think there’s a problem with deceptive marketing. And you can address that will quality journalism, civil litigation (particularly class action lawsuits), and government regulation.

That kind of sounds like our current systems favor investment into advertisement over substance

There’s a huge yield in networking effect thanks to the size of corporate enterprises and the reach of their distribution.

I might argue a wide-scale anti-trust campaign to break up entrenched monopolies would force private businesses to return to quality of product over quantity of marketing. But Kickstarter reveals this isn’t a problem unique to bigger business ventures.

I might try regulating Kickstarter such that the platform itself faces penalties for excessive marketing of products - particularly ones that never release in full.

I might also consider public financing for local clubs and independent non-profit business ventures. Because a lot of this hype happens in a kind-of social media vacuum. People get suckered into MLM scams and other duplicitous ventures because they’re bored, alienated, and idle. Set up more public events and public areas for gathering and entertainment. Fewer people will be so terminally online that they are waiting around to get baited.

how do I get 3M on Kickstarter?

A common, solid benchmark for return on marketing investment (ROMI) is a 5:1 ratio, where $5 in revenue is generated for every $1 spent. While 4:1 to 10:1 is considered average to strong.

So, spend between $300k and $700k on advertising and - assuming you did it right - you should expect around $3M in returns.

Been part of a number of campaigns.

Retail American politics is not conductive to forward looking ideology

Sanders was forward looking during the primary. But he collapsed back into defensive, borderline reactionary “this is the best we can do” during the general.

Fully unironically.

But you’re not going to find that kind of tech optimism in the States. At least, not in any political debate

Every politician I’ve seen seems obsessed with past. Maybe the Obama past. Maybe the Reagan past. Maybe LBJ and FDR. Maybe Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

I haven’t found anyone interested in talking about the future, except maybe those weird AI obsessed dorks who insist humanity won’t be around in another generation or three.

I had multiple clients yell at us for this, back when I worked in a contracting job. It was infuriating that we had to play these stupid games.

22:00 - 22:30 Walked Dog

22:30 - 00:00 Cleaned up piss

00:00 - 2:00 Cleaned up piss

2:00 - 2:30 Cried

2:30 - 3:45 Cleaned up more piss

Also a little odd that he did 6 interviews in 5 hours. How long are these interviews?

Also, as someone who regularly takes his son to daycare (and leaves him there! he needs to learn to hussle his way back home again, I can’t be there to helicopter parent!), good luck getting them up, out the door, through traffic, and back to the office again inside 30 minutes.

This guy is doing what I used to get yelled at all the time when I was filling out a time card - block billing. “One task? 1 hr. One hard task? 1.5 hr. One easy task? 30 min.”

Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.

He has the biggest stick in the world, but he doesn’t meet the strength, intelligence, or wisdom requirements to wield it

Trump with more competency would be a different kind of disastrous. Better military leadership, a broader global alliance, and more effective (ie, not the AI slop) weaponry would just mean another Libya or Syria instead of an Iranian state that’s held firm.

Trump with more intelligence would have meant doing an Obama-style Stuxnet attack or a new and more pernicious sabotage/infiltration operation. One that would further destabilize society in Iran until it was ripe for collapse, a la Yugoslavia or modern day Cuba.

Trump with more wisdom would have meant not doing any of this shit to begin with. The wisest thing to do with a The Biggest Stick is to cast it into the fire. Destroy it. Trump’s not the first President to become seduced by the mad whispers of a dozen different Pentagon analysts and John Bolton minded strategists. Iran is ultimately just a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea. Our imperialism is a cancer upon the planet and the source of our own social decay.

when he uses it it degrades faster than normal and doesn’t work

When anyone uses it, all it can do is degrade society and undermine long-term socio-economic goals. To war is to splatter yourself with the blood of your neighbors. You can never justify it, in the end. You can never war “correctly”.

This guy’s a Chinese Wumao Russian Bot Republican Psy-Op Far-Right Double-Secret Fascist Oil Executive Who Wants to Murder Everything.

If you don’t blindly and uncritically support Jim Justice for President, you are the worst thing to happen to this country since Eugene V. Debs cost John W. Davis the election.

It’s adorable that anyone thought we’d have a political class willing to combat pedophilia, except as a pretext to harass LGBTQ folks, immigrants, and vulnerable minorities.

Empty Head. No thoughts. Just here for the CSAM and frog memes.

If we allowed revolving credit, it would operate exactly the same as a credit card, but that’s currently not allowed.

It would cut into a multi-trillion dollar market for short term credit. No way “Business Friendly” MPs would allow that.

Modern Conservatives: “We have a crisis of masculinity”

Traditional 1950s Americans: “Your parents exist because we did it raw on the subway”

I’ve been told that this is both fake (because China) and gay (because alt-energy).