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Rachel Rawlings 3d ago

@benroyce Donald believes Hanlon's Razor is what one uses to slit friends' throats and that it needs to be renamed after him.

Malice and stupidity are inseparable with this administration.

@linuxandyarn

exactly

Hanlon's Razor needs updating

it should now be:

"Never attribute to #malice that which is adequately explained by #stupidity... wait... what? Holy fucking shit this person is evil and a moron"

Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)3d ago

@benroyce @linuxandyarn

Hanlon's Razor is about acts, not about people.

You can do something stupid in the morning, something good at the afternoon, and something evil at evening, being the same person.

You can even do something that is dumb, good and evil at the same time. Which Hanlon would be right to attribute to stupidity, of course.

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 3d ago

@benroyce @linuxandyarn

Important to recognize that some things are not mutually exclusive.

@PaulWermer @benroyce @linuxandyarn

Дими́трий 3d ago

evil stupidity, or moronic malice, is only a crisis when the purpetrator is obscenely wealthy.

#eat #the #rich

Josh 3d ago

@benroyce
@linuxandyarn

Ludwig Vielfrass 3d ago

@benroyce @linuxandyarn there’s a corollary in the Clarkean form that states “any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 3d ago

@lerxst @benroyce @linuxandyarn However it remains the case that cock-ups are *so* much easier to arrange than conspiracies.

Usually.

Urzl 3d ago

@benroyce @linuxandyarn I just straight up reversed it for Trump.

The fact that he's also stupid should in no way detract from the fact that he's evil.

dlundh 3d ago

@benroyce He's quite something, that president of yours.

@dlundh

i expected the decline of the #usa in the world, but i thought it would be more gradual. i didn't expect a nosedive from 20,000 feet straight into concrete

Lor 💬3d ago

@benroyce @dlundh

Well considering how inept and stupid Trump Inc. is - i am not that shocked.

clew 3d ago

“Slowly, and then all at once”?

Economic bankruptcy, _moral_ bankruptcy…

@benroyce @dlundh

Jan Antoš 3d ago

@benroyce @dlundh I am afraid you are too optimistic, I see deep coal mine and US not yet at the bottom.

@janantos @dlundh

considering the usa's moronic energy policy, the coal mine you reference might be literal

Jan Antoš 3d ago

@benroyce @dlundh I have used coal mine on purpose. You certainly can read between lines.

Josh 3d ago

Yeah felt more like a bird high-speed colliding with a window. But also in slow motion and it's happening right now.

@dlundh

Robin Barton 3d ago

@benroyce @dlundh Civilizational suicide is the new cool

Ørum 3d ago

@benroyce as I've been saying for a while now, Hanlon's razor has been giving way too many assholes the benefit of the doubt

Exit Code 1 3d ago

@benroyce I'm speechless. What the...

lemgandi 3d ago

Also cf: 'I'd prefer a rogue to a moron. Rogues take a break once in a while.'.

I am still waiting for the break.

Solarbird

3d ago

@benroyce "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

AND HOW'D THAT WORK OUT FOR THEM, SHITSTAIN?

my gods he's so evil and so stupid, jesus wept

Pino Carafa 3d ago

@moira @benroyce and besides. PH is still a horrible memory for Americans and a source of shame for the Japanese. To make flippant comments about that, speak about it in an admiring tone, while sat beside the Japanese prime minister..... the mind boggles.

J$3d ago

@moira The irony is, the US did get warned in advance, but refused to be informed. If that doesn’t sound like a symbolic crazy carrot fireboding I don’t know what does.

Steve's Place 3d ago

@moira @benroyce He used her to make a threat that attacking the US will result in a nuclear response.

PG1958WILLNOTCOMPLY 🇺🇸🇷🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸3d ago

@benroyce trump is a total disgrace in every way possible.

Paul_IPv6 3d ago

we need a term for equal parts malice and stupidity, both in full force...

Trump.

@tomjennings @paul_ipv6

when the north koreans insulted trump in his first term, they used an outdated translation resource and used the antiquated word

"dotard"

which was unexpected genius on north korea's part

tom jennings 3d ago

Dotard is a lovely word!

Im gonna use that.

@paul_ipv6

Paul_IPv6 3d ago

@tomjennings @benroyce

guess my days as an english major and lots of 19th century lit had me bumping into it fairly commonly. but it is stunningly apt as a description of him.

@paul_ipv6

i suggest the following term for colossal evil and colossal stupidity at the same time

"they're so evil and so stupid they're uranium"

uranium:

dense, toxic, and radioactive

Paul_IPv6 3d ago

with an endless supply of idiots who think it's the way to power and ignore the toxic waste you have to deal with...