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Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · 21d

“People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.” - Anonymous

Posting this for no apparent reason.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Sep 20

“In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the earth, while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

- Eric Hoffer

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Sep 4

"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC)

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Sep 2

"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."-Arthur C Clarke

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Aug 22

So tired of all the village idiots who banded together and somehow took over this nation.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Aug 19

“We are very malleable. We can bring out the best in us and it’s our job to design societies which bring out the best and suppress the predispositions which may once served a role, but now are obsolete.”

- Carl Sagan

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 31

That’s awesome! You’re wonderfully creative. Time for me to go shopping.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’d like to recreate that. What did you buy?

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Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 28

"A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life."

~Eric Hoffer

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 27

"A liar's worst enemy is someone with a good memory" - Dodinsky

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our current predicament can be summed up in one sentence: mediocre men who have the privilege of opinion, without the burden of experience.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 12

“The greater the outward show; the greater the inner poverty.” — Krishnamurti

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 12

I echo your sentiment.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 7

"You can’t wake a person who’s pretending to sleep."
— Navajo proverb

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jul 4

This! 👆🏽

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Admiral of Aotearoa @muskeyb8927.bsky.social · Jun 22

Great read. Reposting to all my followers.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Jun 22

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

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Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jun 17

Well damn! I just invited myself. 😄

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jun 16

I would like that very much. DM me. I travel often for work.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · Jun 16

He rarely spoke of his time at war. He did mention liberating a camp and the horrors he witnessed. Makes me wonder if their paths crossed.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · May 17

What branch of the military did he serve in? Oh wait, he didn’t. Despite being 18 when we invaded Iraq he chose to never serve. He had years to enlist but he didn’t. Tired of all these fake patriots who never served.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · May 16

A reminder to all here: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.” - William McAdoo

Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.

Derek the Strategist @derekthestrategist.bsky.social · May 13

100% accurate!

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FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social · May 11

"Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality."

bookshop.org/p/books/mora...

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think

How Liberals and Conservatives Think

bookshop.org

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FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social · May 10

"Complex narratives — the kind we find in anyone’s life story, as well as in fairy tales, novels and dramas — are made up of smaller narratives with very simple structures.

"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff

www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...

Moral Warfare 101: Frames and Your Brain

Part two in a series on the structure of political ideology

www.theframelab.org

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