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There are US citizens, former employees of USAID, who have been abandoned after trying to stop a cholera outbreak in the middle of a civil war in South Sudan.
by freen 2y ago
There are US citizens, former employees of USAID, who have been abandoned after trying to stop a cholera outbreak in the middle of a civil war in South Sudan.
With their families.
Their security detail: fired.
Their logistics team: fired.
No water, no power, no fuel.
Look: sufficiently advanced incompetence and/or carelessness is equivalent to malice.
I don’t care if you WANT to attend to the nuclear weapons, if you are so unserious, or understaffed, or incompetent, or distracted, or whatever to fail to actually do the thing.
Intent is irrelevant. Outcomes are everything.
- orblivion 2y agoThat's fair, but the initial point I was replying to was about intent.
- freen 2y agoAgain, intent is irrelevant. Sure, criminal negligence vs murder, but do you really care if it’s your kid?
- orblivion 2y agoAnd again, I'm responding to another post (two, actually) about intent. If you have an issue with it, take it up with them. I acknowledge your point as fair, but a separate point.
- philistine 2y agoDo not worry about world-ending neglect towards the staff responsible for the maintenance and security of our nuclear arsenal, their intent was only for a smaller government!
- orblivion 2y agoI don't know what's going on with HN right now, there usually is a lot more reading comprehension and level headed conversation, even on controversial topics.
- philistine 2y agoIt's not me minimizing a series of catastrophic events because in my great wisdom I have perfectly ascertained the intentions of an unpredictable administration, it's reading comprehension.
- freen 2y agoThe foundations of the American government and its ability to care for its citizens. People are loosing their livelihoods, people are dying, etc. You have been desperately attempting to defend the “intent” of the perpetrators. That might rub folks the wrong way, huh?
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoThey have spoken their intent out loud, over and over.
- orblivion 2y agoI think I did a poor job of articulating my point. My point is that they've spoken their intent to smash the bureaucratic state. Their intent is not to dismantle 100% of the government, including the military and the nuclear bombs. So I don't think the nuclear bombs incident is a great example of them enacting their intent. Unless you actually think they want to do that, but then that's a much different claim you're backing up.