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Brooke Harrington Profile picture
@EBHarrington
Jul 22, 2021 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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As news stories drop about COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting defiantly from ICU beds, let's review what fraud research suggests abt the responsibility we should attribute to them for their condition & the ms they send.

Are they victims we should pity? 1/x Image
@ekverstania Here's the second one, which includes a little more on strategies for addressing COVID deniers and vaccine refusers:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@ekverstania Here's the article that sums up all of it--from the vaccination-in-disguise mystery, to pressuring coroners to falsify death records (subject of a later Twitter thread), to the big picture, which is many pundits'/policymakers' inability to understand grps:
chronicle.com/article/how-so…

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Brooke Harrington Profile picture
Nov 7, 2022
~12 yrs ago, I read this profile of EM's 1st wife & decided never to buy shares in any biz he ran. Why? Bc men who treat women like this are malignant narcissists & biz disasters.
My version of "short everything that guy has touched" from "The Big Short."
marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380…
Reference: the scene late in "The Big Short" when Mark Baum meets a CDO manager, finds out how he does business & is so disgusted that Baum instructs his team to bet against everything the CDO manager has touched. Key line around 6'05".
In business or politics, betting on men who hate & abuse women will screw YOU every time.

The personal is political...& economic. Private abuse of women is a reliable indicator of character in other realms of life.

Corporate boards already know this.
theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Nov 5, 2022
A very insightful read on the inner workings of our new overlord. Come for the humor ("the perfect living embodiment of the Simpson’s monorail man"), stay for the mic drops on crypto, verification ("the site becomes a platform organized around fraud"), etc.marginalcall.substack.com/p/cluster-b-li…
Damn. The proof of concept on this strategy was Peter Thiel's immolation of Gawker (hi, Palantir bros!).

This tracks with @ruthbenghiat's analysis. Image
Well this part literally made my stomach drop due to the sheer accuracy.

@MikePerryavatar: I'm tagging you in here because this essay reminds me of some of your musings & if I were having a dinner party based on Twitter follows, I'd definitely seat you two next to each other. Image
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Oct 28, 2022
Our world is being turned upside down by billionaire versions of South Park's Eric Cartman, all seeking revenge bc we did not respect their authoritah!
Putin is Cartman-in-Chief, unleashing Trump when HRC & Obama made him feel small;now he's working out his issues via war crimes.
Trump is Cartman junior, still tantruming over inauguration crowd sizes & an infinite list of status injuries to be avenged by burning down 250-year-old institutions.

Now Twitter. More collective punishment to teach us all a lesson for mocking He Who Shall Not Be Mocked.
Before him was P Thi*el, who destroyed Gawker for exposing him to humiliation.

In the UK, RU oligarchs sue journalists who make them lose face. In Turkey, Erdoğan made it a crime to disrespect him.

Everybody hates humiliation; problem is, these men make the whole world pay.
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Oct 27, 2022
🧵What was the point of making Russian oligarchs international pariahs & seizing the yachts, private jets & villas they used to get friendly with Western elites?

Sanctions based on stigma & shame can bring down dictatorships, as I explain in @ForeignAffairs, w/@CooleyOnEurasia.
Followers who found me via my 🧵on stigma & shame motivating COVID denial & vaccine refusal may find this interesting: it applies the same sociological ideas in a very different setting.
This also draws from @ruthbenghiat on strongmen & @eosnos on elites.
foreignaffairs.com/russian-federa…
Sanctions based on imposing pariah status on an authoritarian regime's elites work slowly & indirectly--quite unlike the more common economic & political sanctions--but they have nonetheless brought down previous dictators, most famously Pinochet.
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Jul 29, 2022
My career in 2 pix, via 2 generations of students, 22 yrs apart.

L: the yr 2000 course reader from the very 1st econ soc course I taught as a brand-new prof @BrownUniversity.Carefully saved by @frankhajdu.

R: econ soc books from my course at @dartmouth via @daniel__kramer '21. ImageImage
These pix make me so happy bc they represent my highest aspiration as a teacher: not to get positive student evaluations at the end of term, but to impart analytic tools that students can use to make sense of their world for the rest of their lives.
This is now a multi-generational project:someday soon, I'll teach the kids of students I had as a fresh-out-of-grad-school assistant prof.

But also multi-generational in that I'm passing along the gifts I was given by great teachers;I still have THEIR reading packets & syllabi.
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Apr 9, 2022
Oligarchs: what & where they are🧵
1.They're not just Russians. They're everywhere-even Canada, as today's news shows-& they're not "just rich ppl."

They're a subset of rich ppl who want to be an intl ruling class: shaping politics, markets & media outside their home countries. Image
2. Oligarchs often support 1 another, bc they share an agenda: they "have more in common with each other" than w/ppl of their own countries, said a wealth manager in my book.

The agenda: unlimited power & wealth. They undermine democracy & media bc those impose accountability. Image
3. So all the dastardly doings of Russian oligarchs we've seen in the news for the past 6 wks? Those are FAR from unique to them:

ALL modern oligarchs buy their way into the institutions of other nations, to make those orgs work *for them* at the expense of local populations. ImageImageImage
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