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When do we cross the barrier from incompetent to nefarious?
by huijzer 7mo ago
When do we cross the barrier from incompetent to nefarious?
- idle_zealot 7mo agoIt's not an either-or question; they're very transparently both nefarious and incompetent.
- edgyquant 7mo agoSo what does that say about their opposition who lost all three branches of government to them?
- Tarsul 7mo agoNot nefarious enough?
- idle_zealot 7mo agoPopulist evil polls better than technocratic evil.
- bdangubic 7mo agothis is cyclical in america by design. see 2016 then 2018 than 2020 etc…
- saulapremium 7mo agoit says that playing by the rules means losing work when the other party doesn't.
- red-iron-pine 7mo agothey are incompetent at running a successful government and maintaining hegemonic domination for western interests. they're doing a fine job of screwing the world for their own gain, and/or working as sock puppets of foreign governments. at no point was there ever a true belief, except for the "idjit" demographic, that trump would ever do anything meaningful in a governance sense.
- delecti 7mo agoThey're orthogonal, so there's no barrier. They're all nefarious, and most are also incompetent.
- huijzer 7mo agoAnd they are not nefarious and competent while pretending to be incompetent?
- XorNot 7mo agoThe Nazis were hilariously incompetent, but it didn't make them any less dangerous.
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- ragebol 7mo agoGetting yourself installed as president while knowing you are incompetent (I mean, look at all those bankrupt businesses, he should know) is nefarious in itself. His entourage is nefarious for supporting the incompetency for their own gain.
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- jerlam 7mo agoIf people are giving you money, are you truly incompetent? I think we're using different scales to measure competency.
- ragebol 7mo agoCompetent enough to receive money, not competent enough to run a country well. But now we're getting into very subjective stuff, I'm sure his handlers are quite OK with what he's doing. It doesn't matter it all looks super suspicious, they are confident they won't face any consequences.
- munk-a 7mo agoProbably January 6th 2021