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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

8 months

The thread on con jobs in everyday life and "cooling the mark out."

Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

3 years

In 2022, those of us who do research on fraud & con artists will celebrate the 70th birthday of the seminal article in our field: "On Cooling the Mark Out," by Erving Goffman, a giant in 20th century sociology. This text explains where we are now. ) 11/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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As a tax researcher, I was skeptical of rumors Trump buried his ex-wife in that sad little plot of dirt on his Bedminster, NJ golf course just for tax breaks. So I checked the NJ tax code & folks...it's a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated.

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@NavarreSteve Yes. I was surprised. That's why I checked and why I posted the thread. I couldn't believe her 3 kids--whom she apparently loved & who loved her--would allow their father to treat their mother like this. Burying Ivana in little more than a pauper's grave disgraces them all.

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Full text of NJ tax code for land used for human burial. No stipulation regarding a minimum # of human remains necessary for the tax breaks to kick in--looks like one corpse will suffice to make at least 3 forms of tax vanish. @alexcobham @RichardJMurphy

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@jenmercieca Yes, but this could not have been Trump's decision: he had not been her next of kin for decades & had no right to decide her burial place. Ivana's *actual* next of kin--her still-living mom & 3 kids--or the executor of her estate, had to agree to this. THAT's the shocker.

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Brooke Harrington

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Notable left-wing firebrands at the The Wall Street Journal suggesting that corporate price gouging is driving inflation. 👀

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@EBHarrington

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For those interested, @propublica published a Trump Family Trust document which shows they have sought to designate a property in Hackettstown, NJ (20 miles from Bedminster) as a non-profit cemetery company. Insights, @jentaub , @eisingerj , @MaryLTrump ?

Trump Family Trust - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from over 1.8 million nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and...

projects.propublica.org

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@thedesertginger I'm not surprised by any depravity on *Trump's* part. But remember, he hasn't been her next of kin for decades...he could not have decided unilaterally to bury her this way. Ivana's *actual* next of kin--her mom & 3 kids--or the executor of her estate, had to agree to this.

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Brooke Harrington

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THREAD: 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

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Brooke Harrington

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@lachlan @Popehat This can only work on people who: a) don't recognize "Christ the Redeemer" b) couldn't find Brazil on a map if their lives depended on it c) don't realize that Brazil is one of those Latin American countries full of the non-English-speaking brown and black people they fear

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Brooke Harrington

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@sclinton60 @NavarreSteve I'm glad you found it useful. As someone who's studied tax avoidance professionally for the past 15 years, I thought checking out the rumors was the least I could do with my expertise. Also, I couldn't believe Ivana's mother and kids would agree to her being used like this.

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Brooke Harrington

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@audiosand @jamescappio @Cigna Same. @Cigna has also refused to cover my child's treatment for a rare neurological disease even tho our state (NH) *specifically requires* that insurers cover this particular treatment for this particular disease.Our docs at @DHMCandClinics say @Cigna flouts this law frequently.

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Brooke Harrington

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@SportsCenter @espnW This is Tamara Walcott & she only started competing 3 YEARS AGO, when she was 34. Since then, she's lost only once. Can you imagine going from total newbie at competition to setting an all-time world record in 3 yrs? And doing so when many athletes are considered over the hill?

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Brooke Harrington

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This is why the claim "yOu MusT reSPekT vAccInE dEnieRs" is BS: vaccine deniers don't crave respect from *everyone.* Randos offering respect won't change a thing. The only people who can sway these folks are members of their chosen reference groups: maybe family, church, &. 24/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Marks ARE victims at one point; but eventually they're all confronted w/evidence that they were conned--evidence like being in the ICU after contracting a virus they believed didn't exist. They are just as responsible as anyone else for what they do with that information. 19/x

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Brooke Harrington

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I have to cook dinner now, but if you found this thread helpful in understanding a social problem, GOOD! That's what Sociology is for, as I tell students. The US would be better off if we had Chief Sociologists, not just Chief Economists. With @alondra , we're getting there. 32/32

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Goffman's work, along w/100s of articles that have built on it, suggests that many victims of con artists make a conscious choice to protect themselves socially & emotionally at the expense of others. "Be kind" does not require that we accept this unkind, even deadly choice. 16/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@jentaub You're the law prof, so I'll defer to your reading of the full Publication ANJ-22, linked in my second tweet. I was surprised by the lack of stipulations about minimum conditions to obtain the "cemetery company" designation & tax breaks: no min # of bodies, no min land use.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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One might ask of the National Review why they don't publish articles suggesting that drunk drivers, or people who knowingly transmit HIV to sexual partners w/out disclosing their status, need to be "persuaded" not to harm others? Why doesn't NR demand respect for them? 6/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Goffman's key observation, kind of obvious when you see it in B&W on the page, is that eventually all marks come to understand they've been conned. Then what? As Goffman explains, they almost never complain or report the fraud to the authorities. Why? Bc it's humiliating. 12/x

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Brooke Harrington

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The "moral failure" of the COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting from ICU beds is to prioritize saving face over saving other peoples' lives. They could do the latter by telling the truth & exposing the con, saying "COVID is real, get vaccinated." But they don't. 15/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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People who fail to warn others of life-threatening dangers ("don't swim out to that reef--I nearly drowned in the undertow!") ARE responsible for that choice. They SHOULD be condemned, just like people who drive drunk & knowingly infect unaware partners w/HIV. 18/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Social psych 101: Ganging up on a person perceived to be vulnerable is the quickest, cheapest way to build a sense of "community" for people who crave belonging & affiliation but lack the skills or will to connect with others authentically. As in middle school, so in adulthood.

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Here is Glenn Beck's media outlet openly apparently trying to bully a government employee, for no real reason, who is one of the friendliest, most helpful people I've worked with over the last few years. 8M views. Why. Why do this. Just to be mean to someone?

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Brooke Harrington

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@alexischateau_ @shannonrwatts The whole state of Missouri seems to jumped in the express handbasket to Hell since Ferguson. They're defending child marriage, defunding the public library system, and--with their absurd gun laws--inciting white men to engage in extrajudicial killings.

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Brooke Harrington

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1st strategy=deliver appropriate social consequences for dangerous anti-social behavior. Stay away from these folks & explain why you're doing it. Don't argue abt whether they're "victims." Refocus on pragmatics: what are they or others doing to prevent needless death? 21/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Since they've chosen moral failure, & now endanger us all with their face-saving maneuvers, the pragmatic question is: How do we keep them from killing the rest of us? Goffman's work implies 2 parallel strategies: 1) Let them experience social death. 2) Employ coolers. 20/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@BrownoftheGlobe @JordanKonek Agreed! I didn't realize igloo construction could include steps, and a vaulted ceiling in the entry hall high enough for a full-grown person to stand up straight. Fascinating. Wish the OP would post more detail about location and context--I'd love to know more.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Both the RW & LW absolve pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers of responsibility for harming others (& themselves) on the premise that they are "victims"--either of "disrespect" or of a "con" perpetrated by RW media, Trump, etc. Both approaches treat these individuals as helpless. 7/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@BlackKnight10k I'll show you gangster. This guy is made of steel.

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went and translated that zelensky selfie video from the streets of kyiv, just to know what he was actually saying in response to the russian reports that he had fled -- so here it is for the rest of you, plus this music naturally felt right. enjoy.

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Brooke Harrington

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2nd strategy=identify figures that the marks trust & enlist them as "coolers." High-status members of the marks' own communities are the only ones who can help reconcile themselves to their humiliation & enable them to rejoin society w/out putting the rest of us in danger. 22/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Both approaches have become almost completely divorced from the American pragmatic tradition (ex:Pierce, Dewey & Wm James) which would lead us to ask: what do we want to accomplish & what will actually work? Those are pretty impt questions when millions of lives are at stake. 3/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Like the rest of us, COVID deniers & antivaxxers don't much care abt validation from randos. Humans care about status & "face" in communities that matter to them, which define their place in the world. Sociologist Robert Merton called them "reference groups." 23/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Have you ever made a mistake that nearly did irreparable damage to your life, or risked killing you outright? Most adults have & they try to help others avoid those mistakes. That's caring & responsible. Yet the peculiar social psychology of the con militates against this. 17/x

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Brooke Harrington

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The pragmatic survival task we face now is identifying the relevant reference groups for pandemic deniers & antivaxxers, along w/influential members of those groups who can model how to tell the truth about COVID-19 w/out "losing face." Those people must act as "coolers." 25/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@KeithOlbermann Yup. I wondered if perhaps burying Ivana near the first tee was his way of hurrying those other strategies along, as if to say "quit screwing around, we've got an actual corpse here!"

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Brooke Harrington

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So humiliating, in fact, that Goffman describes it as a form of social death: the body survives, but the person-in-society is destroyed by the admission of having been conned. It's a condition Goffman likens to being laid off, deported or dumped. Very relatable, & pitiable. 13/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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In 2022, those of us who do research on fraud & con artists will celebrate the 70th birthday of the seminal article in our field: "On Cooling the Mark Out," by Erving Goffman, a giant in 20th century sociology. This text explains where we are now. ) 11/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Texas is becoming East Germany, complete with Checkpoint Charlies--for women. Gendered fascism will likely remain unreported as such, since most US media refuse to acknowledge systemic violence against women as political in any way. Nonetheless, it's old school totalitarianism.

#RandyResistING Authoritarianism

@RandyResist

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“Today, Caroline Kitchener reported in the Washington Post that at least 51 jurisdictions in Texas have passed ordinances to make it illegal to transport anyone on roads within city or county limits to get an abortion. Their hope is to target interstates and the roads around…

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My editor at the Times said the piece would be in the print edition today, but he didn't say it would lead the Opinion section, front page above the fold. For a former entry-level reporter, this is like being blown a kiss by the Beatles from the stage. I wish my Dad could see it.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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@academicviews @BillyBaldwin Yes. The point is *why* she did so and what the story of her marriage tells us about the character of the man asking Americans to make him President. For those unfamiliar, this was a huge story in the 90s, now largely forgotten:

Serial cheater Bobby Kennedy Jr told wife she was 'better off dead'

In this world exclusive excerpt from RFK Jr and the Dark Side of the Dream, author Jerry Oppenheimer lays bare the life of the 61-year-old Kennedy scion.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Brooke Harrington

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The 1st people who try to act as coolers are usually treated w/suspicion--even if all available evidence is on their side. Look what has happened to hi-status GOP ref gp members like @RepKinzinger & @RepLizCheney when they dared to try cooling out the marks conned by Trump. 27/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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It's fairly easy to dispatch the "disrespect" claim: it implodes on contact w/the RW's long-standing insistence on personal responsibility. They deny that any individual's choices can be blamed on another's actions...hence, no amount of "disrespect" should matter here. 8/x

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Brooke Harrington

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Clearly, Americans *can* be rational problem-solvers when it comes to some situations that require weighing the claims of personal liberty vs collective survival. No one (that I know of) argues that we should address the problem of drunk driving w/kindness...or executions. 4/x

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Brooke Harrington

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But w/increasing numbers, it becomes more difficult to marginalize the efforts of coolers. They represent the weight of reality crushing fantasy. We need to identify & support more of these insiders w/in the reference groups that matter to COVID deniers & antivaxxers. 28/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@iamMauriceW Am I reading this right: the child support only becomes payable once there's a live birth? If so, the state has created a $ incentive for DV & femicide: the easiest way to avoid paying this child support will be to murder the pregnant woman or beat her until the fetus dies.

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Brooke Harrington

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Coolers help the mark "to see himself and judge himself." They help with "redefining the self along defensible lines." Note the "judge" part: coolers *don't* absolve marks or encourage them to see themselves as victims. No: they help marks reconcile themselves to reality. 26/x

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Brooke Harrington

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We see this now in the halting efforts of Hannity on Fox News or Ron DeSantis of FL, encouraging supporters to take COVID precautions. Their motives may be selfish--fear of lawsuits or losing voters to death--but *their* approval matters to the deniers who could kill us. 26/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Here's where social scientific research on fraud becomes very useful. Among other things, it allows us to detail the experience of the "marks" (people who get conned) in such a way that we don't flatten them into helpless paper dolls, robbing them of agency & motive. 10/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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P.S.: I've just been reminded that my editor @IanMalcolm10 might be disappointed an extremely polite Canadian way if I don't mention my books. They do the kind of breaking-down-problems-with-sociological theory you've seen in this thread, but 4 finance.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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@stacycay I'm a sociology professor who's spent the past 15 yrs dedicated to research on how the world's wealthiest people avoid tax & any law they find inconvenient, mostly via the offshore financial system ("tax havens"). To do that, I first trained for 2 yrs to become a wealth manager.

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Brooke Harrington

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But there's a crucial difference between a mark & most others condemned to social-death-by-humiliation: the mark can simply deny the con, claiming they were "in on it" the whole time. This saves their pride & cheats social death, but allows the con to continue unchecked. 14/x

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@mctabbykat @ask_aubry Atwood, not Drabble.

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But how to argue against "be kind?" Many people may have misgivings about that approach, but are afraid to voice them bc the implicit alternative is "be UNkind;" as social psych research has shown for decades, we all want to believe we're "good people." Even bad guys do. 9/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@KevinMKruse @NRSC @LucasKunceMO This Trent Lott erasure will not stand!

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@EBHarrington

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"Some day, and that day may never come, I'll ask a service of you." In which I explain how the Supreme Court is now literally operating on mafia rules.

Mob Justice

What do plutocrats and Supreme Court members get from being friends?

www.theatlantic.com

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Applying the insights of Goffman & social psych suggests a kind of grassroots strategy: DM reference gp members who have ventured doubts about the con, esp if they have lots of followers or their posts get lots of likes. Offer to back them up when they tell the truth. 30/x

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Brooke Harrington

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One of the recurrent problems in US popular discourse on the proper response to crises is that it's often assumed there are only two options: 1) crack down hard, damn the consequences (usually assoc w/RW) 2) "just be kind; kindness is everything😊🌈❤️" (usually assoc w/LW) 2/x

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Brooke Harrington

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@brooke Hi, I don't know you, but I'm so sorry that disgusting, depraved idea ever entered your life. It's like you got sideswiped by hit and run evil.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Anyone remember studying the Fugitive Slave Act in US History class?

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@atrupar

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where we're at in America in 2022: the president just had to state publicly that he supports the right of women to travel across state lines

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@faisal__hamadah Northern Europe is really a trip. When I'd try to rent apartments in Germany & Denmark, landlords would list among the perks of living there "We don't have any Turks" or "No Muslims here," thinking I'd regard that as a selling point. Solution: hired a Turkish rental agent.

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Brooke Harrington

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@phoebesaid @CamilleKimball Yes. I didn't mention those bc I don't know the ownership structure of Trump's Bedminster golf course: thus, in the likely event that Trump does not own it outright, but instead the property is held in trust or via holding company, inheritance tax wouldn't apply in the 1st place.

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The call has to come from inside the house. Alt strategy: identify people who are inside these folks' reference groups & ALSO part of your ref gp.If they know they've been conned, use *your* approval as an incentive. Explain how much you'd admire them for telling the truth. 31/x

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Brooke Harrington

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An unintended benefit of otherwise destructive social media: Facebook, Twitter & other platforms make it fairly straightforward to identify & sometimes join the reference groups that COVID deniers & antivaxxers have created. Within the groups, leaders can be IDed & observed. 29/X

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Brooke Harrington

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But now, w/COVID having claimed at least 610,000 US lives, with more deaths coming from the Delta variant & no end in sight, there have been increasing calls to "empathize" w/pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers (from LW), coupled with calls to "respect their liberty" (from RW). 5/x

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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Someone else reached the same conclusion, in a much more succinct format:

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@thebookbro Feel free to ignore and move on to subjects you do find worthy of your attention.

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@raisedbygaysok The parenting version of that thing where you buy a fancy toy for your cat, but the cat prefers the box in which the toy shipped.

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Plant. Based. Rice. My brothers and sisters in Christ, what do you think rice is?

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Brooke Harrington

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A thread on delusions of impunity among the super-rich...inspired by seeing others arguing abt why many of the world's most wealthy & powerful people seem to act as if calamities like climate change won't harm them. Some observations based on ~14 yrs studying global elites: 1/x

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@ask_aubry Makes more sense when you put on your RW Decoder Ring™: "respect" translates as "submit."

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@VEB32140686 @iamharaldur @elonmusk Twitter bought Halli's firm & the contract requires that if he's ever fired, he gets a large payout w/an amount & timing agreed in advance. For 9 days, Twitter wouldn't confirm or deny that Halli had been fired, so he turned to Twitter. "Move on" = losing the huge sum he EARNED.

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@BillyBaldwin Thank you for remembering her. I remember her too, and how savagely she was smeared by Bobby after her death. It was grotesque.

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@brooke Also, I see that *you're* the reason the Twitter handle @brooke wasn't available when I created my account in February 2008...you scooped me by 6 months! Nice to meet you, fellow Brooke. 🤓

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@SportsCenter @espnW More on Ms. Walcott's brief yet glorious career below. Possibly of interest to Mrs. @BrendanBaber .

Powerlifter Tamara Walcott Deadlifts All-Time Women's Raw World Record of 288.5 Kilograms (636...

Tamara Walcott broke the all-time raw women's deadlift world record by 1.5 kilograms at the 2021 WRPF The Showdown in Kansas City, MO.

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Brooke Harrington

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For the US government to be at the mercy of a deranged billionaire is a decades'-long policy failure attributable to the "everything would be better if it were run like a business" crowd.

Brandon Friedman

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Just want to be clear about this idea that it's "not possible" for the government to break up with Musk: Taking flight by flapping your arms is "not possible." Walking from Los Angeles to Hawaii is "not possible." Not ending Musk's federal contracts is a choice.

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🧵 2016 was a MAJOR missed opportunity to halt Putin's imperial ambitions by cracking down on his offshore billions. The Panama Papers showed him using offshore accts to capture EU officials, laying groundwork for today: IT & DE refusing to cut RU out of SWIFT. Infuriating. 1/x

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@MWConcertVideo @RachelShukert Yes. As with the Buffalo grocery store murder a few days ago, the murderer could not be stopped by armed guards/police because he was wearing body armor. Hence the absurdity of the "good guys with guns" claims.

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This convoy tactic is literally just a global reboot--facilitated by social media--of what the US Repubs did 50 YRS AGO to overthrow the democratically elected gov of Salvador Allende in Chile. Behind it are same ppl as 50 yrs ago: esp Roger Stone, who got his pol start w/Nixon.

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1

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Overseas content mills are behind much of the Facebook support for trucker convoys: Facebook groups promoting American trucker convoys are being run by fake accounts tied to content mills in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Romania and several other countries.

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Misogyny in the US is so pervasive, most people cannot perceive it as a problem or imagine the world otherwise. Normalization so complete that SCOTUS identifies w/ stalkers & actors rally round a colleague who bragged abt committing rape--2 key methods of misogynist terrorism.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

@amydiehl

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More than 1/2 of female homicide victims were stalked before they were killed. Yet in Supreme Court case, Chief Justice Roberts jokes about how he identifies with the *stalker*: “I can’t promise I haven’t said that." @ma_franks

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@lawofruby @ELLEmagazine This is the "disciplinary" function of rape: to clip the wings of uppity women. Serial sexual predators like DT are the enforcement arm of a larger system that includes sexual harassment at work, etc. The examples made of women like JC serve to terrorize the rest & keep us small.

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@swolecialism Being unteachable seems to be a defining trait of libertarians; they are aggressively resistant to any information--historical or contemporary--that might puncture their fantasy of total autonomy & mastery over their domain. tl;dr: They won't learn sh*t from this. @BrendanBaber

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@MoiraDonegan --signed, a perfectly healthy woman who became unable to walk for months during pregnancy & nearly died in the delivery room, despite being surrounded by some of the best medical care in the world, in the Year of Our Lord 2010

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Brooke Harrington

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@HUNTRRxHUNTRR Technically, he *was* there--half of him, at any rate. From the moment we're born, little girls' bodies come equipped with all the eggs we'll ever have in our lives. So the egg that would one day become your son *was* at that party, inside 5-yr-old you, waiting his turn to live.

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Brooke Harrington

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@JessicaLitwin1 @RVAwonk I think about Marissa Alexander a lot. She fired that shot in a "stand your ground" state, too. That she went to prison while white guys get off scot free for murder on "stand your ground" claims...just goes to show that the laws exist to protect male (mostly white) supremacy.

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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.

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@hawklyf49 @DrGJackBrown Classic move by abusers, at home and in politics: compliance-with-contempt. Like the wife-beater who says, "sure honey, I'll do the dishes," then calmly and methodically drops each plate onto the floor, making sure that it breaks.

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Brooke Harrington

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Yes &: Behind those forms of capitalism are 2 forms of authority, at war in a much broader arena than the biz world. It's a war btwn what Max Weber called expert authority (based on merit) & traditional authority--patriarchal, senescent, the power of mafosi, oligarchs & warlords.

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@AndreaKuszewski @thedesertginger Even Ivana's mother? Marie Zelníčková is very much alive & at 96 probably isn't as persuaded by bribes as Ivana's kids: for payoffs to be attractive, one must live long enough to enjoy the benefits. Selling out your only child for a handful of silver would be shocking.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

2 years

@MoiraDonegan Oh give me a FUCKING break. The betrayal this woman is trying to pull off is staggering. Coney has birthed several kids & knows better than anyone else on that court the risks & rigors of gestation & delivery. She knows pregnancy can be debilitating & delivery sometimes kills.

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Brooke Harrington

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If you liked my thread last week on COVID and the Sociology of fraud, you may I enjoy this article I wrote for the Atlantic today, which delves more into the con artists and coolers.

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable

Why targets of deliberate deception often hesitate to admit they’ve been deceived

www.theatlantic.com

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Brooke Harrington

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Welcome new followers; for those interested in Trump's history of tax avoidance, here's a @nytimes piece I wrote on that subject ~2 yrs ago. I'm a sociologist w/a professional credential in wealth management, specializing in "tax optimization" research.

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Brooke Harrington

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@thedesertginger For a woman who spent most of her life in $800 stiletto, surrounded by eye-popping opulence, I feel very confident that she would not have been okay with a rectangle of bare dirt, a tiny plaque & a flower arrangement that could have come from a gas station. This was her life:

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@fisherfly303 @ViviKumaDesu @javu247 @renuvian @nastychef666 @komkommerschip Since we're on a Lesbos-themed roll, I'll just leave this here:

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@TomBalestrieri @jbouie "We"

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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OMG, I cannot believe he went there, but am so glad he did! This is how you REALLY gum up the works offshore: name & shame the professionals enabling the oligarchs. My research shows a LOT of conscience-stricken wealth mgrs out there; they need this kind of push to come clean.

Jim Waterson

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Well. This is spicy. Conservative MP Bob Seely makes the most of parliamentary privilege to name individual London lawyers working for Russian oligarchs and questions their morality.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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@tadpr0le @designmom No, you've got crucial claims wrong here--the Panama Papers story was broken by German journalists @f_obermaier & @b_obermayer . Daphne Caruana was murdered for investigating corruption in Malta: something the PP data substantiated, but her story was independent of the PP.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

2 years

Oh nothing...just the exact things women have warned about for roughly 25 yrs, while being dismissed as hysterics, "humorless feminists," etc. We saw this coming and begged for help to stop it. But now the GOP is gunning for birth control, it's "bro what the fuck is going on."

Lolo

@LolOverruled

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bro what the fuck is going on

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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We're trapped on the planet w/elites who, by & large, aren't interested in addressing the crises facing us all. They have resources to address the problems, but often won't use them bc they believe they won't be affected. They lack social solidarity. 11/x

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

As riches grow, empathy for others seems to decline

www.scientificamerican.com

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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@Ginger7730W @AndrewFeinberg @realDonaldTrump A lot of immigrants who become citizens (like Melania) end up much better informed about everything to do with the flag than native-born Americans because the immigrants actually have to pass a civics test as part of the naturalization process.

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Brooke Harrington

@EBHarrington

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@KevinMKruse It looks like the kind of breakfast plate that mid-level domestic airlines used to serve in coach. No smothering in sight, not even a gd WAFFLE...I'll bet he doesn't even know about the jukebox.

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