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This is one of those comments that sounds profound if you give it a cursory glance, but actually makes no sense whatsoever.
by Analemma_ 10y ago
This is one of those comments that sounds profound if you give it a cursory glance, but actually makes no sense whatsoever.
- mirimir 10y agoOh come on, sure it makes sense. It means that you failed to communicate effectively. Or that communicating to them was not an effective strategy.
- Apes 10y agoOr the person you are communicating to has a conflict of interest and has a strong incentive to feign ignorance. Usually referred to as being "corrupt" for short.
- mirimir 10y agoIn that case, "communicating to them was not an effective strategy".
- mikeash 10y ago"Their strategy is not effective" is quite different from "they are the problem." Anyway, what would you propose that they do?
- mirimir 10y agoIf B is ignoring A, for whatever reason, then A can talk to others. Or more generally, do whatever it takes to workaround B.
- mikeash 10y agoA does talk to others. It still hasn't worked, and now B is trying really hard to make A stop telling everybody about this stuff.
- mirimir 10y agoSo A has to get rid of B, or make them irrelevant.
- mikeash 10y agoHow? B has all the power. It's easy to say "get rid of them" but how do you actually do it?
- mirimir 10y agoMaybe B has overwhelming power now. But if B's position is untenable, that will eventually become apparent. And yes, that may take far too long to be of any good.
- tremon 10y agoBut if B's position is untenable, that will eventually become apparent. Sure. That's why B is investing heavily in its military.
- mirimir 10y agoI thought that this subthread was about US politics. That's so knife-edge that it could flip in four years. But yes, if the US goes full-moron, and takes a military approach to climate mitigation, all bets are off :(
- jon_richards 10y agoI may have butchered the quote a little bit (not a famous quote, just something told to me once). "If you spend too long convincing someone of a problem they can't see, they start to see you as the problem" gets the meaning better. It doesn't mean to give up, it just means that you are making yourself their enemy and thus probably making it harder to get your message across (look at the studies on showing scientific evidence to anti-vaxxers).