• mozz@mbin.grits.devOP
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    5 months ago

    That’s honestly a pretty fair point. I’ve done the same type of thing during times in my life when I interacted with a ton of different people.

    Side note, I have heard that part of what’s required of a person for them to have success in politics (at least during the pre-Fox-News era; IDK if this still holds true in today’s wholly blow-dried artificial electoral landscape) was this: You have to actually care about the people you meet. Like on this unnatural level; to want to get to know them, remember their kids and their favorite sports teams, be excited to talk with them and remember the connection you had with them even if it’s been years since you’ve seen them. And you can’t fake it. It has to be just genuinely because you’re that type of person.

    John Mulaney told a story about how his mom went to school with Bill Clinton, and met him one time and interacted with him, and then went up to shake his hand at a campaign event literal decades later when he was running for president, and he instantly said, “Hi, Joan! Good to see you” etc etc something like that.

    Like I said, to like an unnatural level