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Or 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 shor
by Apes 10y ago
Or 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 :(