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  • Rilichu@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlJBP has got u bro
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    10 months ago

    90% of his advice is pretty much just boilerplate self help stuff you can find in thousands of books on Amazon. That stuff gets you in the door and is meant to develop a sense of trust because you might see initial improvement and feel good from the advice.

    It’s when he does the rug pull and starts introducing trad nonsense into it that determines how willing a person is to keep following through on listening to him.

    Like you mentioned, this is an extremely common tactic used by religious leaders as well as cults. Back in the mid 20th century when the whole self help craze started, many cults took to framing themselves as self help groups to attract outsiders. NXIVM is probably the most infamous example of this. The first few meetings should seem like a normal support group but would soon start ramping up into full on cult mode.






  • He’s seems like one of those shady ass business types that will run a company into the ground while trying to maximize his personal earnings before he skips town on a solid gold private jet.

    Looking at the numbers given on Wikipedia is ludicrous.

    “Milken’s compensation while head of the high-yield bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s exceeded $1 billion over a four-year period, a record for U.S. income at that time.”

    That’s already nuts but then you look at the company’s financials and its even more insane.

    Revenue: US$4.8 billion (1968)

    Net Income: US$545.5 million (1968)

    The guy was syphoning off a whole fifth of the company’s entire revenue for the last years of its existence before it went bankrupt.


  • “[Kevin Klowden, chief global strategist at the Milken Institute] explained that the work stoppage will impact other businesses besides production, including restaurants, catering companies, trucking agencies, and dry cleaning businesses, among many others. ‘The main thing we’re really factoring into it is the lost wages,’ Klowden told Yahoo Finance Live”

    Got to sow that discontent for the strikers among other workers. As if the Hollywood business execs give 2 shits.

    Also checked up about this Milken Institute and of course it’s some scumbag think tank. The opening paragraph on their Wikipedia page is great and totally makes them seem like a reputable and unbiased source.

    “The institute was founded in 1991 by Michael Milken, a former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker who gained notoriety for significant financial success as a pioneer of “junk bonds” as well as his subsequent felony conviction and prison sentence for U.S. securities law violations.”






  • “Try to do that at an airport and you’ll get arrested.”

    She knows plane spotting at big airports is a pretty common thing too right? Hell, some airports even have a place where it’s specifically encouraged. Reagan Intl has a park that was built at the end of the runway for plane spotters.

    “I’m the media”

    You’d think she’d be better at researching basic stuff that takes a 5 second google search to know it’s perfectly fine to do