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Trump's Master Persuader techniques
  • That's a good primer, read this for more:

    http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius

    A few examples from the article.

    Trump's saying he's worth $10 billion is an "anchor" in your mind. It's big, round, outrageous and therefore easy to remember.

    Trumps insults are what Adams calls "Linguistic Kill Shots", not random insults. They're engineered to have a visual component, ie Jeb does look "Low Energy" and are built for conformation bias so when he does something weak in the future it reinforces the nick-name.

    Trump does something called "Pacing and Leading". When he started with the birther issue, he was "pacing" the people, matching their high emotional state. Once he paces them, he owns them. Then he can slowly, back n forth take them to less extreme positions. It worked to a T when he had the birther event where he had on veteran after veteran talking about how good Trump was, then he goes, "Obama's a citizen, forget birtherism". All his supporters laughed and moved on.

    That's how he was able to win. His verbal skill set is second to none.

    To figure out how to do it yourself, read the books recommended here:

    http://blog.dilbert.com/post/129784168866/the-persuasion-reading-list

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  • @CRFilms

    Animals and plants evolved for long long time and very slow, and, things are more complex than survival alone, sadly.

    If you still want to remain on animal level - your choice, but not mine and not choice of most people around you.

    All we have is that things I post are made to rise your opinion to knowledge and you constantly want to lower my knowledge to opinion. Drag me down to your level and try to win in imaginary fight.

    Topic is closed as it have no point anymore.

  • @Vitaliy_Kiselev haven't you been paying attention? Nobody's rational....if we were, we'd all believe the same ideology, religion, humor, etc... :P

    Our viewpoints are 100% different, yet we can still eat, drink, go to work, have sex, etc.... We evolved for survival, not rationality.

  • I like how you keep trotting out Lenin as if it's some kind of winning argument. Lenin, Marxism, socialism, communism failed and failed spectacularly. Communism is responsible for more deaths than the Nazis and second only to organized religion.

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    As soon as you are out of rational stuff you start posting such crap.

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  • @Vitaliy_Kiselev I like how you keep trotting out Lenin as if it's some kind of winning argument. Lenin, Marxism, socialism, communism failed and failed spectacularly. Communism is responsible for more deaths than the Nazis and second only to organized religion.

    But please, keep quoting failed philosophers.

  • @Tron

    Well, I think you go in circles.
    I expect people to read a little and understand how capitalism works around you and check yourself.

    People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

    V. Lenin.

    Otherwise I now feel like this and have big urge to use some conspiracy theory to calm you:

  • The last thing corporations want to do is play chicken with a nationalist freight train. They will lose because Trump is not afraid to call them out on their transgressions against the US worker. He's proven that already. Pawns of "the capitalists" don't do what Trump did. People have mysteriously died for doing much less than Trump has already done.

    This is a classic case of someone with nothing to lose (and a large ego) going for broke and actually winning. It so rarely happens some folks are now grasping at conspiracy theories to try and explain how it's even possible.

    VK, if you expect people to believe that "the powerful" installed Trump to shame politicians and corporations simultaneously, wake up the masses to a rigged system and rigged media for the benefit of rigging the system EVEN MORE... well, you really owe it to everyone to reveal their identity so that we can laugh in their face for being so stupid.

  • Trump has been saying for Decades, he thinks we're getting ripped off on trade

    I don't care that he say, I check results.

    Since elected, Apple is looking into building in the USA. Ford said it wouldn't move a plant to Mexico. He's still talking tough on Trade. The proof will be in the pudding, but Trump is saying what NO politician has said in decades, nevermind a winning politician.

    It is now all words and more words.

    Not understanding how things work is your big issue. Trump is just small funny puppet in the hand of real capitalists and interest of this guys is to get maximum profits, it is priority number one.
    Can puppet in puppet theater tell to public that he want to do something against puppeteer? Of course it can, but it is puppeteers voice talking.

    Can this guys move production to US? Of course they can, only if it will be more profitable, of course. But it does not mean that it will be better for you. It actually means that it will be worse - companies will get special tax reduction and even full exceptions for few years (and it will be continued). They will also make very few working places and rely on robotics and special energy subsidies (paid from your wallet). They make sure to add changes to working laws to make exploiting simpler.

  • Trump has been saying for Decades, he thinks we're getting ripped off on trade. Back then it was Japan, but now it's China.

    So yes, let's look at potential economics. Since elected, Apple is looking into building in the USA. Ford said it wouldn't move a plant to Mexico. He's still talking tough on Trade. The proof will be in the pudding, but Trump is saying what NO politician has said in decades, nevermind a winning politician.

  • All of Wall Street was against Trump. All the media was against Trump. Silicon Valley was against Trump. The D.C. Establishment, including most Republicans, were against Trump. And he still won. So you say he was secretly backed by them all along? That's funny.

    Whole point of theater performance was to have some of media treat him bad, make him "against the system" guy. You just fall in same trap countless people did for centuries.

    Someone who in politics or economics believe on bare word is no more then full idiot.

    V. Lenin

    Stop looking at the Trump face and media, do not waste time. Ignore all that he or his enemies say. Look only in real economic things that concern you.

    I can even tell you with 100% probability that if you are outside top 1-2% everything he will be doing you won't like (do not worry, in different outcome it had been same for old lady :-). Not only you won't like it, you'll feel it and see each day in your life.

  • @Vitaliy_Kiselev you make it sound as if the U.S. media wanted Trump to win, they did not. The entire American media and half of Fox news was against him. That's why they gave him so much coverage, they thought all the "outrageous" things Trump said would sink his candidacy, but it didn't, the people believed those things as well. That was one thing Adams got wrong as he thought the media would be more fair to protect their brand, I knew they wouldn't be.

    All of Wall Street was against Trump. All the media was against Trump. Silicon Valley was against Trump. The D.C. Establishment, including most Republicans, were against Trump. And he still won. So you say he was secretly backed by them all along? That's funny.

  • I see only one issue with all such techniques. Somehow they work only if you are supported by ruling class and do that you had been told to do exactly. In the moment where you loose support all of them stop working instantly somehow, and even worse:

    South Korean prosecutors are now formally treating President Park Geun-hye as a suspect in a snowballing corruption scandal that has dragged her approval rating down to a record-low five percent and prompted weeks of mass protests.

    This can happen, or Brazilian case and endless list of their analogs. All if them though that they had "linguistic kill shots" and many more.

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