• Jesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    24 hours ago

    Obama’s old speechwriting director just interviewed the researcher who uncovered this phenomenon. Pretty fascinating conversation about what successful authoritarian resistance movements have in common.

    https://youtu.be/x4syl-hZ9_I

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      4 hours ago

      She didn’t “uncover” this phenomenon. Mark Penn was the Clinton’s pollster, and he published his book Microtrends in 2007. Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point was published in 2000. The concept of the “Tipping Point” has been known and studied for a long time. .

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      23 hours ago

      Must be very interesting. I previously listen she in David McRaney’s podcast YouAreNotSoSmart with not knowing what about that rule and understand that is not like a stone rule, and more an statistical analysis who shows that even minor percentages of people can make it. I’m sure that in the video that you refers, she solves many of the doubts that that such a statement generates.