We’ll be including this in my forthcoming edited anthology, “When Language Is a Pretzel: The Exonerative Voice”

This fucking prick giving an interview in uniform. Terminally evil and stupid, but vain and valor-seeking too.

Tbh for me I think the only thing that would change past the 100-year mark is what they were calling Poland at the time — but sounds like a cool premise and I’ll give it a download!

Keep an eye out for how many times he OFFERS favors, connections, intros, and criminal acts. He doesn’t make them ask, he anticipates and offers, welcoming them into the circle — which often is a trap snapping shut, yes, but mostly is a much subtler snare. Offer a gift and get a favor owed.

This is old school. This shit is vintage.

Yet more evidence that any given specific NIMBY objection to a project is, more often than not, a shell game for generalized opposition to change—it's merely the most compelling sounding argument—and addressing such individual concerns will usually not meaningfully reduce opposition.