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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      this is called 'playing to one's priors' -- the oldest, most effective marketing/propaganda trick in the book. cc @CaseyA

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2016
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      Point is you can't create those priors. You can only wait for them, and they might never arrive, leaving your bid for power stillborn.

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    3. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      Buddy, that's obvious. But who said that Masters of Propaganda wait? They never wait on them--they bend/exploit existing ones. (cont'd)

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2016
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      Hoffer Has discusses this. At the scale of nations, there's not much you can do to provoke the right conditions. Maybe city/Corp scale

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    5. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      Hmmmmm. Do not what Stalin, Castro et al (mistreat their citizens) not count as 'provoking right conditions'?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2016
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      Matter of degree I suppose. You'd have to model the situation. I think "political elasticity" is generally lower than people think

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    7. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      Hmmmm. In less than 20 years, I have seen the Left go from full protectionism for union members to full globalism/free trade.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2016
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      Because Internet happened on Democrat watch and they smartly took credit :D. Remember Bill Clinton's "balanced the budget" bragging?

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    9. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      sure. My point is that I think political elasticity is generally high. eg USA kids of refugees of Communism sympathizing with Commies.

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    10. Patrick Vlaskovits‏ @Pv 16 May 2016
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      Had a girl whose parents fled Vietnam tell me that Commies were misunderstood. Function of rebellion against right-wing parents.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 May 2016
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      There's a "political activation" funnel. From ignorance to casual opinion to apathetic voting to anger to rallying to extreme voting...

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