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I would argue because incompetence is statistically more likely.
by inpdx 5y ago
I would argue because incompetence is statistically more likely.
- DonHopkins 5y agoYet malice is statistically more profitable, and pretending to be incompetent is statistically more easy that taking the blame for malice.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoNot from hostile state actors. We're talking about a country that has spent the past fifteen years rearming, has interfered in elections and referendums, has held nearby countries hostage over energy supplies, has been involved in ransomware and hack attacks, has imprisoned political opposition leaders, is currently massing an army on its borders, and is run by a short insecure and vain man with mafia connections who likes to posture topless in staged PR photos. It's really quite surreal to dismiss all of that as "incompetence."
- mandmandam 5y ago:Eyes-looking-sideways emoji:
- freeflight 5y agoHalf of that applies just as much to the US, even more half of that applied to it not too long ago. Which makes all this reheated cold war rhetoric really surreal to most third parties.
- panick21_ 5y agoAre we talking about the US? They have not murdered a million Arabs in the last 2 decades, so we can say that in their favor.