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Trump's razor: Why attribute something to incompetence when you can attribute it to patriotic sabotage?
by vdupras 10mo ago
Trump's razor: Why attribute something to incompetence when you can attribute it to patriotic sabotage?
- andrewflnr 10mo agoThere's no patriotism here. That's just part of the cover for seeking power.
- vdupras 10mo agoWho's seeking power, the poor schmuck who misused their PDF tools? It seems that my novel "razor" is misunderstood. The article attributes bad redacting to gross incompetence. But what if the person having done this bad redacting is instead doing sabotage with plausible deniability "lol, those damn PDF tools, you never know how they work"? It makes this story more interesting, and it allows one to see an outline of the future film scripts that will be written about this period. The courageous saboteurs at the dawn of american fascism.
- andrewflnr 10mo agoI do think I misunderstood your post, sorry. I was thinking of those ordering the redaction. I do still think incompetence is more likely to be the explanation. Incompetent redactions are a perennial problem even in much less controversial situations.
- jimt1234 10mo agoThere's no patriotism in protecting chomos.
- TRiG_Ireland 10mo agoIt's certainly possible that some of the underlings are deliberately sabotaging orders from above. It's also possible that they're incompetent, as so many of the Trump team are. How would we know which it is?
- insane_dreamer 10mo agodefine "patriotism"