People are dumb, social animals. Try to engage on their level and you’ll find yourself effecting change far more often.

I subscribe the 10/20/40/20/10 theory of human behavior, so I see the opportunist that he is where to go from there. To paraphrase, 10% of people are selfless, 20 prefer benevolence, 40 go with the flow, 20 prefer selfishness, and 10 are perfectly selfish. This is particularly relevant for public figures.

Give Sheeran money and he’ll say whatever. Give or take away his money and he’ll be cajoled one way or another. He’ll basically never rise to any occasion because that is not who he is, and that’s not who most public figures are. Because it is more often useful to appear benevolent, celebrities tend to appear selfless. There’s nothing to it beyond that.

To phrase this another way, take away the stick and provide your own carrot to gain the totality of the central 40% in an instant. People like this fence-riding fuckstick. There’s really nothing else to it.

Then sway the rest. Also, I’ll definitely need a source to back that up. I’m pretty sure it’s an even split between socially regressive and progressive people

Tell patriots fans that their team has a political slant that you disagree with, if that is the case. The Kraft group’s other holdings are a bit too opaque for me to parse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Group

Oh shit, this seems like an application of a prompt approach created last year. The agent was meant to sell ice cream to fictional vendors while maintaining profits- imagine this lemonade sale online game, but with more bartering and pitching. Supposedly, the agents universally death looped after running for 30 consecutive days.

It’s at least partly misplaced aggression to attach so much to him. Attack the source of compulsion and reprimand capitulants and accessories, imo. Then promote those with real loyalty. Genghis khan built an empire on it, so there has to be something behind it.

Saved. This should not be as applicable to lemmy as it is.

Viewer consensus seems to indicate that his reward should be two small packages, each costing 50 cents, delivered exceedingly expediently to him.

Just checked on that one dude who was shot for harassing or, as he’d put it, “pranking” people irl. He continued doing it for years afterward, and every single comment on his videos was wishing death on him. “Should have aimed higher” felt particularly strong.

I genuinely believe that you could be acquitted for shooting one of these douchebags to death. Society seems that fed up with them.

This honestly makes more sense than any other explanation I’ve heard so far. There’s no reasonable way to account for this many unforced errors without veering somewhere strange.

I just realized how good the deal he offered was. Partial repayment of Lego value and a silly little dance is far and away the best settlement that one could hope for. And they rejected it because…

Wait, when’d they become a dictatorship??

Edit: 2013?? How am I so far behind the times on this one?

That kid is such a glorious nuisance. The definition of good trouble.

A good glowing orb. And then a neutral glowing orb.

It’s sheeran’s tour that is continuing with neither pause nor Macklemore, his friend. I blame Kraft 90% and Sheeran 10%.

Ed Sheeran really needs the money, guys. Don’t pounce on a poor kid like Ed Sheeran. I’m sure that if he had a social safety net, he would also be willing to protest against active genocide like the upperclass wealthman, Macklemore.

Joking aside, is anyone surprised by music venue owners being the shittiest people in existence?

criminal speaks on behalf of those who busted him out

No clue why they would want this or think that this is a positive look. Unless they’re leaning into the “crime is legal” deal

Welp, seems like a whole lot of people are just going to start dying again. Both those trapping and those tired of being trapped

Edit: a word

As a non-Irish-catholic who was not alive in 1940s America, I honestly can’t make heads or tails of how conventional or steadfast his morals are, for that crowd. It’s a common mistake to reference modern or personally felt sentiments as objective, when they are not. They are exceedingly contemporaneous and location dependent.

But he’s a violent, insane, religious man in the 60s, so there’s probably something off beyond turning the dial up to 1100

I mean, he pretty clearly set the record. That irrespective of his appearance, clothing, situation, or anything else, he is a severely homicidal lunatic. One of the more effective scenes. (I liked darth Vader’s “nooooo” as well)