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Chronology of a Coup
YouTuber @JanetWeiss5166 asked me on 15 October 2025 “Can you help the following facts go viral?” I added bullet points and rendered in italics the part I edited and my addendum. In March 2024 the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Colorado seeking to keep insurrectionist Trump’s name off the state ballot, citing the…
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Proposed Constitutional Amendments
lesson learned (n): A law that prevents the recurrence of past social upsets. Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States…
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Anomalies and their Followers as Drivers of Episodic Social Upsets
While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random…
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Mind Categories as an Ancient Equilibrium Distribution
Babiak and Hare (2006) conducted psychology experiments in which the antics of what they called “hucksters” were shown to randomly-selected audiences, after which each audience member was interviewed about their impressions of the huckster. The audience members fell into approximately equal thirds in their responses, numbered herein according to the order of their mention in…
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