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That penultimate paragraph. Jesus Christ.
by jasonmp85 10y ago
That penultimate paragraph. Jesus Christ.
- spiderfarmer 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
- moomin 10y agoI'm reminded of something I read by people who were in the cultural revolution. They always convinced themselves that Mao had bad advisers and they'd get purged soon. Took decades to twig that the problem was Mao himself.
- coredog64 10y agoIt isn't just Mao. "If only Stalin knew" was a popular refrain.