Evaluating politicians on a metaphoric business competence scale. He may not make mailroom clerk as a businessman. But he isn’t in the business of business. Politics eats business for lunch when conflict sharpens. Just ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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In the words of Frank Underwood, choosing money over power is a waste for the politically talented. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnnm3
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Totally disagree. America could not even kick the Vietcong for sport. There’s a difference between having military muscle and a militarist mind. That weak little dog is currently holding a demented elephant at bay. When you lose your mind, your muscles don’t matter.
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You self-assess partially correctly. It’s not mere tone, it’s intent. Your profile claims virtues only a saint could unironically claim. Slipping into patronizing without knowing much about the other is a moral hazard when you do that.
If you try too hard to conduct yourself with more civility and gentleness than you actually feel, slipping into indirect aggression modes like passive aggression, patronization etc is inevitable. Which is why I prefer to simply get mean and act rude if I feel like it. Ymmv.
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