Corporate Rebel

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[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

Jamaican women have a 62% paternity fraud rate. Nigerian women rank second

- Stirling Cooper

[Alexander Stahel 🌻 @BurggrabenH]

Helen Andrews’s thesis on the feminisation of Western institutions helps explain something increasingly obvious about progressive politics in both the US and Europe.

Politics is becoming less a contest between competing ideas and more a system of social conformity: you are either with us or against us. Disagreement is no longer merely disagreement. It becomes evidence that there is something morally wrong with you.

That mechanism matters because it allows emotionally compelling narratives to substitute for intellectual coherence. Wind and solar are “green”, therefore questioning their economics, intermittency or system costs makes you a climate denier.

Mass migration from low-trust societies is framed as compassion, therefore questioning its fiscal, social or institutional consequences becomes evidence of moral deficiency.

The contradictions inside the policies matter less than the emotional legitimacy attached to supporting them. Emotions matter, not facts.

Once politics operates this way, social enforcement becomes more powerful than argument. People do not need to believe every proposition. They merely need to understand the reputational cost of challenging it. Nobody wants to be expelled from the respectable tribe.

This is where Timur Kuran’s concept of preference falsification becomes so powerful. People publicly endorse positions they privately doubt because dissent carries a social price.

The apparent consensus then intimidates the next person into silence, making the consensus look stronger still. Eventually you have preference falsification at scale: weak ideas protected by powerful social conformity.

The extraordinary feature of this system is that policy can remain emotionally successful long after it has become economically or socially destructive.

The moral narrative is immediate; the consequences arrive with a lag. By the time energy costs rise, institutions deteriorate, fiscal burdens compound or social trust erodes, years of policy have already been locked in.

It’s a fucking nightmare but it is how a society can keep voting for the Greens or Democrats or Labour etc, subsequently destroy the best nuclear plants, de-industrialise entire sectors, welcome barbarians at the gates etc until the state discovers that the constant false virtue signaling does not balance a budget.

[crest. @sonofcrest]

Rosamund Pike says raising two sons is terribly confusing and it forced her to become someone she never thought she'd be

"I always imagined myself having a daughter. You could say there's a failure that I haven't had a daughter."

"There's been this mother-daughter thing handed down in my family and I don't have that."

"I love the relationship between brothers. They fight each other, hurt each other, and then they're laughing, I have no idea what's going on."

"I love that it's pushing me to be adventurous, because I'm quite a coward really, and I like to play brave people because I like to pretend that I'm not."

"I'm constantly in battle with my own fear, and I'm always pushing myself because I hate the part of myself that's fearful."

"I'm in a family of adventurers who do extreme sports, kitesurfing, skiing, scuba diving, football, I'd never touched a ball with my feet till I had sons. They've taught me so much."

[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

@dhaboy01 He's weak AF had to stop watching the show

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

No matter how society tries to sugarcoat it, if you take back a woman who slept with another man, you’re a big FOOL!🤌

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

⚡️In an Indian village, just hours after the government paved one of the roads, the locals stole it. https://t.co/hiZUnDdUP5

[Dhaboy 😎 @dhaboy01]

The most understanding husband in a tv show..

[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

@dhaboy01 He's weak AF had to stop watching the show

[FortWorthPlayboy @FWPlayboy]

Amused Mastery: Everything she does is cute. All her shit tests are bratty outbursts. Her silly little opinions are adorable.
She is there for you to tease and taunt and patronize. Condescend to her at will.
-Chateau Heartiste

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This scene from White Lotus is very poignant. It perfectly captures every progressive person that I know especially academics. It is unthinkable to them that a person might not share their political orientations.

[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

Nothing about selling has changed in 60 years:

→ Research before you show up → Stay sharp while they relax → Shut up and listen → Wait for the real problem → Create shared ground → THEN make the ask

Mad Men is fiction. This framework is not.

[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

Mad Men, a 60s drama, brings ad agency life to life. It was based on real SOPs, and those tactics still work today. In S5E5, a senior exec(Roger) tells a junior exec(Lane) the exact process he uses to close deals. It's the 1960s. Obviously,no Zoom & slides, just pure psychology👇

[Corporate Rebel @mallovelli]

R: "find out everything you can about him..."
L: "That I've done"
R: "And you still like him?"
L: "I do"
R: "Let it show"
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Roger saves the poignant for last; if you don't like someone, you can't work with that person. The whole point of a sales call is to build a connection