#then how to win friends and influence people

[wernher-von-brawny]

First, yeah, the DNC have spent the last few decades chasing after people who will never like them, while taking for granted or outright abandoning the folks who need them.

It’s hard to argue against the perception that the Democrats exist to prevent progressive energy from disrupting business as usual.

So I get your rage, my comrade, but I think you’re missing the point of what the dude in the quote was saying.

He’s saying he trusted that Trump was speaking his mind, and that Harris seemed to be reading from a script.

He didn’t say that he thought Trump was speaking 'The Truth', or that he agreed with his policies, but that he believed that Trump’s words and ideas were his, and not those of a committee of marketing creeps.

I think what’s most instructive about that article is another quote: “Democrats, another said, are 'not a friend of the working class anymore.'”

I have to agree with that.

Biden walked a picket line, but it turns out he’s not gonna follow through fully on student loan forgiveness.

Pelosi got her congressional chorus to cosplay and take the knee for George Floyd, but what meaningful police reform have they championed since that photo op?

Obama was elected on 'Hope and Change', and then put Geitner and Summers in charge of fixing a problem that they themselves created during the Clinton admin, and their solution was to bail out their friends and let the defrauded masses fall into bankruptcy and foreclosure.

Yeah, “Thanks, Obama” was a racist ( -ish ) dog whistle, but it lingered a bit because it kinda had a point.

And do I even need to detail how the DNC fucked us out of President Bernie Sanders — TWICE!?

So of course a candidate who speaks nothing but DNC talking points is gonna trigger folks 'stranger danger'.

I spent most of my life as a knee-jerk, 'don’t think just vote' Chicago Democrat, until I finally saw that the DNC didn’t actually mean what it said, or follow up on promises made to the 99%.

And if a former party loyalist like me can come to this conclusion, then there are probably a lot of other folks who’ve noticed it as well.

So many of us have lost faith in politics to solve our problems, and a lot of folks — at least enough to sway this last election — have decided that throwing a wrench in the works is the only way they can express any influence over this broken system.

Trump is that monkey wrench. When he promises to smash the system, people believe him. Conservatives believe him. Liberals believe him. Progressives believe him. The rich believe him. The poor believe him.

And Glob help us, in The Year of Our Lord ( Mammon ) 2024, that passes for integrity.

It reminds me of the sound bite that old Slick Willy Clinton his-self gave the media when he threw Al Gore under the bus during the 2000 election ( something he also kinda did to Harris in Detroit this time around; Clinton really doesn’t like V.P.s, does he? ): “People will choose a strong leader who is wrong over a weak leader who is right.”

Harris didn’t convince the dude in the quote that she was speaking with the courage of her “joyful warrior” convictions, and I think that’s a fair point. I don’t think she was either.

I felt she came off very Vice-Presidential, very safe and corporate and triangulating. And in this time of spiraling crises, her safe and corporate and triangulating approach didn’t inspire the nation as much as Trump’s bold, disruptive, batshit-crazy promise to tear down the pig system.

I see the appeal: “You and I are fucked no matter what, but maybe Trump can take down some of piggies at the top.” I don’t believe this strategy will work out in our favor, but I grok spite.

Shit, man, “…from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee” may as well have been Trump’s campaign slogan.

Anyways, I’m well past my 500 allotted words here, so I’ll wrap this up by saying that if the Democrat wing of the neoliberal party wants to win elections post-Trump, they need to sell authenticity as well as Clinton or Obama — or Trump — did.

Personally, I think Pete Buttigieg has that vibe, but we shall see.

“An Arizona man, citing the time Harris said, “you better thank a union member,” during a speech in Detroit, said “that was very disingenuous to me because I didn’t see an honest person that could be president.” “It seemed like a lot of what she came out and said wasn’t really off-the-cuff, wasn’t coming from her,” said another man who voted for Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024. “Seemed like every interview, every time she came out and talked about something, it was planned out and never her thoughts, didn’t seem genuine to her thoughts, whereas, Trump, even though you never really knew what he was going to say, when he was going to say it, it was always him and genuine to what he thought, so that’s what swayed me.””

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New research shows the massive hole Dems are in

I mean … I don’t know how anyone worth electing is going to reach someone like this guy who basically says he’d rather vote for someone who rambles incoherently, with a clear track record of violence and corruption, because he didn’t like the way the scary Black lady talked.

Why is this guy even in this article? This guy is a lost cause. This guy is not the Democrats’ fault. This guy is a stupid fucking idiot who shouldn’t be allowed to be alone in any room with a sharp object.

And this is the guy the Democrats are going to throw the trans community under the bus for, the guy who says he didn’t like how prepared and articulate Kamala Harris was when she expressed her positions, when what we all know is that he didn’t like that she was a Black woman.

THAT is the real disgrace and failure of the party: chasing this guy at the expense of ten people who want to vote for them, because they listen to dipshit consultants who have lost all but two consequential elections for the last twenty years.

[ramonathinks]

Ooo what was the concept bae?

hiiii, basically popstar reader x rockstar choso ����🏾

but this is what it was originally, but then i didn’t know how much i liked this concept.

so then it was thissss. but either way the ideas were gonna be a bit merged together in the end

[colleybri]

A blink and you miss it moment of Cassian becoming an excellent leader in episode 9 of Andor.

Ulaf is slowing the team down, and Cassian (‘Keef’) has the idea to swap places with Taga. Taga asks why and Ham rather brutally tells him “Keef is faster”. Hurt, Taga grumbles “There’s a better way of saying that!”

After Kino comes over to investigate, he asks Cassian whether the swap was his idea, clearly about to compliment him.

Kino is still quite antagonistic towards Cassian (who he has marked as a troublemaker like Melshi) so we might expect him to enjoy receiving some praise but instead of accepting the compliment, Cassian says that the swap was Tagas’s idea. “Are you kidding?” says Taga in respect, and happily accepts the praise, making up for the insult 30 seconds earlier.

Earlier, Cassian wanted to avoid attention for self-centred reasons . Now, this trait is becoming a positive leadership quality . Standing behind others, encouraging them on, freely allowing them to use his ideas and even his words. Motivating them to find their own motivation. 

^^ Kino using Cassian’s words

I think Kino realises exactly what was going on here and comes away with new respect for Cassian. Kino is the figurehead and voice of the prison rebellion, but it’s pretty clear who is the real leader.

[teekays]

i'll be so real every time you guys put the "quinn is reading a book every week" quote on my dash all i can imagine is him with like. goosebumps. junie b jones. don't let the pigeon drive the bus. like the general "books" is just really getting to me

[cinematic-literature]

Interview with the Vampire S02E06 (Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light)

Book title: How to Win Friends & Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre + Dale Carnegie

(Cleaned up versions from an earlier post.)

Peter Lorre: A gift to memes before there were memes.

[teatreejammer]

Coincidence? I think not….

for context, kevin mitnick is a hacker who got into the databases of large companies by tricking people over the phone. This is his first book. Maybe it *is* a sneaky reference considering greely’s methods & the phantom factories being like companies polluting the earth

*thanks to admiralarchivee for getting the screenshots from aj for me*

[iamindifferenttolamp]

Keyleth: *finally tells Vax she loves him*

Keyleth: high five! Yeah!

[rubypomegranates]

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."

Dale Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

[kyouka-supremacy]

WAIT YOU AREN'T AMERICAN???

[abhijeetblogs]

Motivational books

Here are top 10 best-selling motivational books in English which will help you to make strong thinking in your mind and help you to do something for your parents or your life. Motivational books inspire readers to reach their goals. They often share life lessons, success strategies, and mindset changes through real life stories.

Motivational books to read

Some self motivation books names are given below-

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

Atomic Habits by James Clear

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Life's Amazing Secrets by Gaur Gopal Das

Ikigai by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

[hollowfaith]

thank goodness she's not doing this in the backyard

[stoicmike]

I am interesting because I find other people more interesting than myself, works every time. -- Michael Lipsey

[batsplat]

Quite funny, sorry, just some of the Italian journalists - in the Spanish press it came out that, obviously Sete Gibernau had tested the Ducati. And so the Italians trying to stir things said to Casey Stoner 'So, has Sete Gibernau's test made the Ducati quicker?' And he just laughed in the face of the Italian journalists.

Excerpt from the Assen 2008 race commentary

[thateclecticbitch]

desperate times call for desperate measures or whatever

[quotelr]

Could my opponents be right? Partly right? Is there truthor merit in their position or argument? Is my reaction onethat will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration? Will my reaction drive my opponents further awayor draw them closer to me? Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me? Will I win or lose?What price will I have to pay if I win? If I am quiet about it,will the disagreement blow over? Is this difficult situationan opportunity for me?

Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People