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by zombot 482 days ago
Still, "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
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To put it simply: this is not adequately explained by stupidity.
I really hate that aphorism. Malicious people love it though. “Fool me once…”
Except these people have stated their intentions as malicious over and over and over so there is no need to 'ascribe' anything to them.
in a practical sense, well executed stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
> Still, "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

¿Porque no los dos?

> “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/flo...