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The Bari Weiss Strategy

https://letter.otherlife.co/p/bari

The Bari Weiss Strategy

Notes on a $150M playbook that's never been written down

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Oct 8, 2025 at 5:17pmWeb
Show threadbenzibleOct 14
Highly recommend John Oliver on Bari Weiss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Show threadrayinerOct 14
Folks like Oliver hate Weiss because her path to success—building a real business that meets a customer demand, generates revenue and employs people—is one that can’t be gifted upon someone based on their checking boxes and playing office politics. The weasel word here is “qualified.”
Show threadtptacekOct 14
This doesn't make any sense. No part of Oliver's career --- I'm not a fan --- has been based on checking boxes and "playing office politics".
Show threadrayinerOct 14
I didn’t say his viewpoint was self-serving. It’s ideological. A system based on box checking and politics makes it easier to achieve liberal social and political goals.
Show threadtptacekOct 14
Seems like a just-so story. You could have just said Oliver has it out for Weiss over politics and ideology, and I'd have agreed. But you came up with this weird specific story instead.