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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · 7d

Kicking off Season 5 of the Dumbest Guy in the Room, with the great @mcuban.bsky.social, where we simultaneously fix healthcare and advertising, while making an indisputable case for the deliciousness of ketchup on eggs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCV...
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Mark Cuban's Prescription for Fixing Healthcare

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Jun 24

There are a few reasons (and one primary one) why so many companies are pulling back their DEI initiatives, but consumer sentiment is definitely not one of them. Support for companies engaging in DEI is up 5 percentage points YoY (per CivicScience)

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Jun 22

And just like that, Republicans are globalists again.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Jun 14

There are a lot of reasons to be cynical about American exceptionalism, but our ubiquitous air conditioning is not one of them.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Jun 4

They should teach engineering and logistics classes about LAX as an example of how not to do absolutely everything.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · May 21

I’d be strongly inclined to support whichever political candidate vows to end the unwarranted discrimination against laptops during takeoff and landing.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 27

“Some people” are concerned? Like, not “all people?”

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 24

The entire piece was about why people in these small, high-poverty towns support Trump’s tariff policies, not how they voted. You’re welcome to buy our data like everyone else. Then you can make an informed decision about it.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 24

Half the population of Bedford Co is in 2 townships, Hopewell (median income of $95k, poverty rate of 5%) and Bedford Twp ($80k income, 4.5% poverty rate). Hyndman is $62k and 11%. So yes, there are hundreds of towns in the U.S. more like Hyndman than most of its own county.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 24

Because it was a personal intro to a much longer writeup I do for clients every week. Mark simply posted a few screenshots from it, I guess because he agrees with it. Our company has more data on this stuff than literally anyone in the world, ever. You’re barking up the wrong tree here.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 23

Sure. And I alluded to the root cause of that in what I wrote.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well, given that my entire company exists to gather and study political, demographic, and economic data, rest assured I factor it into every point of view I have (hence why people like Mark Cuban trust it and share it).

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 23

A) Where and when did I extrapolate from Hyndman to the "entirety of Red America? I've never done that. B) I also never claimed Hyndman & Bedford had vastly different politics, only different economic circumstances.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 23

1 I've spent half my life (still do), own a home, and will retire in Hyndman. I'm confident in my authority on the matter (as is Mark C); 2 Conflating Hyndman (pop 850) with Bedford (pop 47k) is data malpractice; 3 Reading select screenshots of an email prologue and calling it "a report" is absurd.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 23

Though still far less than other groups, tariff concerns among Republicans have risen steeply over the past month, per CivicScience.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

Again, how is acknowledging why they support tariff policies “rewarding their worst impulses?” I’m certainly. It saying it should change our evaluation of those policies.

John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

This thread went far afield of what I wrote about - the impact of globalization on their local economy. Empathy here is saying: I understand why you feel screwed over by a system you didn’t control and why you support tariff policies I personally believe are asinine. What’s wrong about that?

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

Because that’s how empathy works. And this group of people has clearly shown the power to elect an authoritarian into office. So we can ignore and revile them and keep losing, or figure out economic policies that work for everyone.

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John Dick @jdcivicscience.bsky.social · Apr 20

Yeah you’re right. I wanted to edit it five seconds after I posted it. I meant that 78M total people voted for Trump (which is less than the # of blacks and Hispanics in the U.S.).

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