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by faeriechangling 1372 days ago
Now I think Magnus is being a bit of a dick but he is the honest one in this dispute and his feelings are at least understandable.
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What is honest about Magnus in this situation?

He hasn’t even said anything. All he has done is taken cryptic unexplained actions and released cryptic unexplained tweets.

If Magnus believes Hans cheated (again, that’s a big if because Magnus hasn’t said anything) and Magnus is actually correct that he cheated, even in that situation Magnus’s entire set of actions since he lost have been highly dishonest, since his entire communication strategy has been to leave cryptic messages that people can read anything into, without yet having made any clarifying statements.

I have a few choice adjectives to describe Magnus’s behaviour but I just don’t get how it’s dishonest to be cryptic.