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How to Make Friends and Influence People [Dan Collins]

Chrysler subpoenas corpse from burial ceremony in asbestos case.

Bailout.

Shoe hurled at Achmadinejad. Outrage.

Compound disinterest.

If you want to see someone who really doesn’t get it, go over to (the ironically named Cassandra at) Villanous Company. I’m not going to link it, because I don’t think it comes to grips with the issue at all, though. It represents the symptoms, not the pathology, and it cedes to the pathology. This is a malignant condition that needs more than a palliative.

7 Replies to “How to Make Friends and Influence People [Dan Collins]”

  1. SarahW says:

    If I were on the jury I might be offended.

  2. Sdferr says:

    Nice snook.

  3. Joe says:

    “If I were on the jury I might be offended.

    I hope that gets to a jury.

  4. I Callahan says:

    This may seem a bit morbid, but with this litigious society, can you blame them? I would imagine if it were the other way around the plaintiffs attorneys would have no problem doing the same thing.

    TV

  5. Sdferr says:

    Turns out he was lying about a lot of what he said, but that’s beside the point.

    NO. No no no no no. It is not beside the point. That he was lying all along was perfectly clear to anyone paying half a mind’s attention. That he was and is lying is entirely the point. Always has been. Always will be. That people, like this one, choose to ignore the fact that he is lying is the danger.

  6. geoffb says:

    Re: Cassandra.
    Using a chart of the relative political positions of voters and candidates that the NY Times came up with is allowing your enemy to control your narrative. The Times has already written your opinions for you.

    Even if the chart was done based on a poll, that simply shifts the control to the pollster and the ones who paid that piper.

    The chart is the equivalent of this view of the world, or this map of America.

    Trying to make strategic decisions based on your enemies “facts” will never work to any advantage except the enemies. That blog post was using the visual version of the language problem that has been and is being argued here.

  7. Alex says:

    I’m actually with Chrysler on this one. So the family can simply sue and then bury, leaving Chrysler without evidence it needs to defend itself? Chrysler took samples before death to test, but maybe they need more. Suddenly defense against a lawsuit is a bad thing?

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