Timeline for Discussion about my "opinion-based" question
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| Mar 23, 2022 at 18:28 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @CGCampbell: Sigh... I have a lot of acumen in this subject area. What you consider 'opinion' and 'speculation' is (usually) reasoned analysis from long study and experience. It's unfortunate you don't see that. But if I may be frank, I don't actually care if you're shocked, and my only response to your periodic complaints about this issue is the proverbial (and sometimes actual) eye roll. If it makes you feel better to vent about it from time to time, ok, but seriously... Don't you have anything better to do? | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 18:12 | history | edited | Ted Wrigley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2022 at 16:02 | comment | added | CGCampbell | I must admit I am really shocked by your comments in the final paragraph. Almost every answer you write is speculation or your own opinion based on your own knowledge. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 21:55 | comment | added | Erwan | Thanks for the answer (+1). To be honest I didn't think about this level of distinction, but actually I'm not interested in the different types of "yes-men" as much as in the specific political culture inside the government. I realize now that I didn't choose the title question very well, but I don't know what would have been a good question for this. Typically I found the analysis provided by Fizz quite insightful, that's the kind of answer I was looking for but I wish there had been other answers to see different sources/perspectives. Maybe it's just not specific enough for SE. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 18:12 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @Fizz: °1, °4, and °5 are different in terms of internal motivations: adulation, greed, and self-interest. They look similar on the surface, but react differently under stress and cannot be treated as strict equivalents (which is the crux of the problem with this question). But yes, I think you're right that most people associate yes-men with toadies. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 14:13 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | And the difference between active and passive is easily blurred as you might have seen from Naryshkin's questioning. If we know anything about somewhat smart authoritarian leaders is that they involve their entourage into rubber-stamping their decisions, so they have no wiggle room in case of regime change etc. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 14:06 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | Not my DV, but I think yes-men generally refers to the 1st bullet rather than to fellow travelers And your 4th & 5th bullets aren't substantially different from the 1st one. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 18:28 | history | answered | Ted Wrigley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |