RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681
You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagues rip through them instead of gassing them, it shows a REMARKABLE lack of foresight to put an anti-vaxx nutcase in charge of your master race's public health policy, doesn't it?
These guys are evil but they're not terribly smart.
@Green_Footballs
The "not terribly smart" are usually the marks, not the con men.
Stupid evil is just as bad, but targeting them before the smart evil is not a winning tactic.
I simply can't believe the US current speedrun to be the product of mere stupidity.
So: Never underestimate your enemies.
@iwein @Green_Footballs "not terribly smart" is however a common characteristic of the gilded failsons of the ultra-rich. Inherited wealth means not having to care where the toilet paper you wipe your ass with comes from.
Apparently as of a few years ago NONE of the US billionaires aged under 30 were self-made. It's all inherited wealth now, and the competent-evil grown-ups who built those giant fortunes are dying off.
@Green_Footballs 💯
Just like the people at the orgies in Rome, these nitwits are not the architects of history. I sure would like to understand who is, and kick them in the balls.
Charlie Stross
iwein