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Can we stop with the nth-D chess nonsense? This administration proves day by day that no advanced tactics are going on, it’s literally just clueless idiots impr
by 9dev 2y ago
Can we stop with the nth-D chess nonsense? This administration proves day by day that no advanced tactics are going on, it’s literally just clueless idiots improvising because they’re way out of their league but are too self-absorbed to step back.
- cmurf 2y agoCan we stop with the clueless idiots nonsense? Some are that. The POTUS is also insane. Many more are much, much worse. Marco Rubio absolutely knows due process is a right for all persons subject to U.S. law. It's not only a right for citizens, and having taken this right away from persons, in no meaningful way can it be said it's preserves for citizens. The federal government is at best in abeyance. And an adversary at worst.
- bamboozled 2y agoClueless is the wrong word. Calculated is.
- Propelloni 2y agoRemember Hanlon's Razor, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- anigbrowl 2y agoWhile I like this razor, it's overbroad. Malicious people can always say 'oopsie, I have no clue what I'm doing lol'. Also, you can have people who are both malicious and stupid. Conversely, we know some people are not stupid. I dislike marco Rubio's politics for example, but he's a smart guy and widely considered to be competent. And as an attorney and a US Senator of long experience in intelligence matters, there's no way he's unaware of the legal implications of using a self-destructing messaging channel.
- cmurf 2y agoRemember Dietrich Bonhöffer, Lutheran pastor who considered stupidity a greater threat to good than malice. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bonhoeffer https://hn.algolia.com/?q=bonhoeffer
- matwood 2y agoPeople often mysteriously turn into idiots when their job depends on it.
- nunez 2y agoThat was me reaching REALLY REALLY deeply to find _any_ reason why some of our most powerful leaders would make an obvious blunder like this.
- bamboozled 2y agoInitially it’s exactly now I thought they would try spin it. They still might.