#the problem with a culture that doesn't haggle is y'all never learned how to do it properly

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

emilianadarling

This right here? ⬆️ Circle it, then underline it.

You can't offer your opponent a compromise and expect them to just accept it.

Especially when the 'compromise' in question involves people's basic rights, dignity, or safety.

theknightlywolfe

Actually, don't walk in with what you want. Walk in asking more than you want. You want to buy a trinket for $30, you don't offer $30. You offer $20 and let them talk you into $30.

They want to get rid of ACA. Demand you representatives propose and support expansions to ACA and make them waste their time fighting to keep it exactly as it is so they don't have time to get rid of it.

#us politics #the problem with a culture that doesn't haggle is y'all never learned how to do it properly