5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
8. Invoke authority. Claim for yourself or associate yourself with authority and present your argument with enough “jargon” and “minutiae” to illustrate you are “one who knows”, and simply say it isn’t so without discussing issues or demonstrating concretely why or citing sources.
11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the “high road” and “confess” with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, “just isn’t so.” Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later. Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for “coming clean” and “owning up” to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.
Sentiment is now “broadly bearish” reports David Templeton of HORAN Capital Advisors.
Michigan sentiment declined from 101.4 to 97.8, missing expectations of 101.6. 29% mentioned trade policies. Those who did had weaker expectations and a higher inflation expectation. (Jill Mislinski).
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Hard to get to the new normal when they never understood the old normal
This is a contest where animals adopt different roles like “owner” and “intruder” in a territorial conflict, and where the winner is the individual prepared to persist longer. The term incomplete information refers to mistakes in the identification of roles. The idea by Parker & Rubenstein (1981) is mathematically worked out and confirmed that there exists only a single evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) for the model with a continuum of possible levels of persistence and no discontinuities in the increase of cost during attrition. The ESS prescribes to settle the conflict according to “who has more to gain or less to pay for persistence”. The only evolutionarily stable convention is thus to give the player access to the resource who has the role which is favoured with respect to payoffs.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad must understand that "his provision of a forward base for Iran and its proxies endangers Syria.
signal emissions
Quakers were punished by each side for their supposed allegiance to the other.
At the start of the Revolutionary War, the Friends took a neutral position and were persecuted by both British loyalists (Tories) and American Whigs. Quakers did raise money and sent supplies to assist civilians. In 1777, seventeen Philadelphia Quaker leaders were accused of treason and exiled to Virginia by the Whigs, but the following spring the fourteen who survived were released without trial.
Quakers who stuck by the sect’s pacifist teachings had a tough time during the American Revolution, often lumped in as Tories by Patriots, and subject to spasms of popular abuse, official writs confiscating their property, and other indignities. Prejudice occasionally exposed Quakers to the severest punishments for perceived crimes.
We are under
the order of natural law on his foot stool as a compromised position. We will compromise until duty to family arises at the rally point. That day you pray never comes. The extreme positions are seen at both ends of political human error.
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Meeting over.
Double entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning.
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