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#11

politics allowed here?

Interesting stories with political overlap are ok (see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). I don't think one even needs to apply that criterion here, though. It's a story about a politician, but not exactly politics.

Re: “I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

#12
If this is true, the man is obviously a genius.

That said, the 'act of the fool' mightn't work in operational reality, because if everyone believes he's an unprepared bumpkin, then that's the reality, and he won't be respected.

His former editor at the Telegraph had some very harsh words about him, along the lines of 'he only cares about himself, he's totally unprepared, has no idea what he is doing' etc. and I'll gather that rings true.

So maybe he is a populist genius, but I'm not sure how well this will bode for the current EU/Brexit crisis.

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#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like he hacked the societal expectations of what constitutes a speech via social engineering

twice, the exact same way.

Plus who knows how many more the witness wasn’t privy to.

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#16

I block all Facebook properties at the DNS level. Is there another source for this?

I think a lot more people would block Facebook at the DNS level if it was easy. My hat goes off to you. I really think that we can get a good segment of the population of black Facebook at the DNS level if we just had a simple solution for the common users

Re: “I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”

#18
He must have recognised the seachange of populism and created a persona to suit. Reminds me of the BDG video on Polygon on how to create the perfect E3 presentation. Particularly the part about Gaffes.

I suppose this was a long time coming, in marketing circles, it is agreed that "Generation X" was the first "Jaded" generation, and I feel like there's some link there. Marketing to that generation often involves taking the piss out of their own product, and it is now the generation which is right in the age group to start wielding significant power and still has a number of good working years.

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He must have recognised the seachange of populism and created a persona to suit. Reminds me of the BDG video on Polygon on how to create the perfect E3 presentation. Particularly the part about Gaffes. I suppose this was a long time coming, in marketing circles, it is agreed that "Generation X" was the first "Jaded" generation, and I feel like there's some link there. Marketing to that generation often involves takin…

It's been said that George W. Bush already did that decades ago, shedding his New Englander blue-blood upbringing for Texan rustic.
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