#loyalty

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[classycookiexo]

[vanillababy1013]

[anthonybialy]

Loyal to What’s Faulty

Don’t go anywhere.  It’s not a request.  Please?  Coerced fidelity is as worthless as forcing companies to manufacture in their home country.  There’s a trend.  Donald Trump finds you easy to discard.  You’re not allowed to do the same because the president does it all the time.  The erstwhile steak salesman is the best person by virtue of winning, so feel lucky that you’re allowed to adore him without expecting the same.

Devotion can be overrated.  Adulating a false god is a good time to cease steadfastness.  It’s not that sticking to a pledge is undesirable.  But there should be a worthwhile reason at the start.  Brainless allegiance is demanded by those who don’t earn it.  You can confidently flee a political movement that expects fealty as its chief condition.

Athletes demonized for changing uniforms are exercising their right to change jobs.  Working for a superior company that pays better in a more enticing locale sounds like a good reason to switch.  Trump did just that with political party affiliation.  But the wavering member insists he’s special.  You don’t have to believe him.  As for hirers, it’s worth finding a Republican who has more than a haphazard plan to trim around government’s edges when stump removal is needed.

Divorcing a dirtbag is an example of not treasuring the virtue.  A groom who ended up not quite keeping his gaze off bridesmaids surely appreciates the sentiment.  Dedication should be valuable in aspects like marriage vows.  But the person who requires it from others was too busy proving Playmates of the Month are attracted to utter class.

Abandoning worshipers in ways designed to humiliate them is expected in its way.  It would be easier to feel bad for victims were they not so eagerly masochistic.  Like countless examples over the years of why trade wars have multiple losers, those who keep enrolling in a fraudulent university get the deserved degree.

Making slavish demands is the most tiresome cliché of alleged alphas.  True leaders are fine with you walking away.  The fear of losing disciples is as obvious a manifestation of insecurity as calling others fat.

Trump thinks he must dominate, which is of course a sign of insecurity.  A truly confident leader wouldn’t fret about putting foreign leaders and fellow Republicans in their place.  Leadership should come naturally.  Putting one’s name in gold to show who’s the richest is as artificial as it gets.

Lunatic negotiation ploys that were tiresome decades ago are bound to start working.  He merely needs to get past sighing and eye-rolling.  A magic trick everyone saw at a birthday party for someone whose parents wouldn’t spring for a ShowBiz Pizza Place trip upon the occasion of their kid turning eight is failing to impress.  Making your money disappear doesn’t even take sleight of hand.  Ta-da!

You’re supposed to find the head stud irresistible.  Life feels dated because we cope with the bad guy in every ‘80s movie.  Trump cheered for the jocks in Revenge of the Nerds despite not playing a sport.

We finally have a president who cares about real issues, the most important of which is heeding to his will.  Destroying those who express doubt is one approach to consensus.  Announcing why the government imposing a fee on every transaction will lower prices takes utter veneration, so stop doubting and adulate your financial savior.

Ordering compliance is the sole principle.  Sure, he occasionally crudely repeats a variation of a conservative doctrine he once heard.  And the professed enemy of RINOs usually promises to defend massive federal spending like the pushy liberal he is at his icy gold-painted heart.  But Trump’s only real belief is that he’s superior.  Making sure you know he’s better than you is the point of his messaging.  

A deeply principled dedication to whatever he deems important surely indicates integrity.  Capricious whims are why many members of whatever party Trump’s in seem confused about their principles.  Adherents are suddenly very keen to add a tax to every item purchased from a loser foreign country.  Expecting Washington to continue taking a portion of their earnings to put in a personal lockbox that’s not personal and doesn’t lock is part of the faith.  Next, accusing everyone else in the group of not being a conservative.

You must laugh or you’ll be asked to leave the club.  Insults that are as lame as they are unfunny are the trademark of a devastating wit.  You can tell someone is not entertaining by if they find Trump amusing.  If we’re going to elect a troll president, it may as well be one who’s good at memes.

Jonestown residents would’ve told them to tone it down.  There’s more evidence of Trump betraying those who worship him than there is of anything else aside from more debt reflecting federal overreach.  The lack of free will may not be a virtue.  Commitment can’t be questioned in what should totally reassure enrollees.

Revoking decision-making also explains Trump’s business outlook.  A free market is based in mutual voluntary agreement, and we can’t have that kind of unsupervised chaos.  Leave your autonomy with the guy who bragged that he was so into firing people that he made it his catchphrase and identity.

It’s too easy to become a psychologist these days.  A gender studies degree might take more effort.  Making demands as overcompensation for how little he values slavishness is as integral to his shtick as it is obvious.  Claims instead of actions pair with the one-way transaction like tariffs and high prices.  Demanding everyone in his orbit remain loyal to loyalty is as predictable as a person gets.  Trump is worried about you fleeing.  The order to return offers final confirmation.  No: you be devout.

[singaporeben]

Extrinsic Incentive Error: Salary is why they come, not why they stay

The next in our series from my colleague and co-writer David Boyd. We in the UK have an issue with talking about money…it is a taboo subject in many corners of our society. Perhaps this contributes to our lack of maturity when thinking about reward and retention. Let us know what you…

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

my boss is not evil but her boss is

[new-deerslayer]

Prompt: royal guard

Riot broke into the palace. The king—killed. The queen and the infant heir escape through the secret passage.

The last surviving royal guard shoves them in, hides the entrance, rushes to the other side of the corridor and stands at the completely insignificant door. As he hears footsteps approach, he slams it loudly and shouts: "Run, your Majesty! I'll hold them!“

Then he defends this door like he means it, till his hand can't even grip the weapon. He falls, wounded, bleeding, exhausted. The rebels step over and open the door...

Only to find a mop closet.

They almost beat the life out of him. He doesn't resist. He spits blood and laughs—he won.

The leader of the rebellion stops the beating and orders to get him medical help. They still need him—he knows where the royals are.