The right wing is always stupid. Everyone else is sometimes stupid. But the right? Always completely pants on head stupid, if not cartoonishly evil.
Do not attribute malice to that which can be explained by stupidity… But never fully discount it.
Everytime I see this sentence my brain just refuses to understand it. What does this mean?
It means to not assume a person is evil if their actions could be explained by them being stupid instead.
It gets clearer if you flip it around to sound less poetic:
Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
That which can be explained by stupidity, do not attribute to malice.
Or perhaps in more direct words someone might actually say:
If you can explain it with stupidity, it’s probably not malice.
It means if you don’t know if someone did something because they had evil plans or were fking stulud, its safe to assume they were fking stupid at the point of the incident.
Especially if the evil plan would have been convoluted and required things to align just perfect for the plan to be successful.
But it is not safe to make that assumption. It’s wildly dangerous to label evil as stupid. Giving evil people an in is how we get to where we are.
I was just explaining to the commenter above what was meant by the saying. I never said it was correct in all situations.
If you have an issue with the saying, you’re free to give Robert j. Halon your feedback.
Unfortunately you are also responsible for what you say and do.
It’s called Hanlon’s razor, a take on Occam’s razor, the unstated part is “all else being equal”.
Yeah and its wildly misused and dangerous.
If you want to look for more information:
I quit believing in Hanlon’s razor years ago when I realized that it’s clearly both. Both stupid malice and malicious stupidity.
In this case it’s definitely both.
Both far left and far right are always stupid. At least here in my country Far left: Burns and destroy local business and destroy public transport used by all citizens just to protest and then for some reason blame the police for that. Far right: Constantly having hallucinations about the United Nations being controlled by far left and vaccines = poison.
Both are in a competence to show who has less neurons.
Far left: Burns and destroy local business and destroy public transport used by all citizens just to protest and then for some reason blame the police for that.
Go and protest by the sidewalks on Sundays, they are not gonna give a shit, if they even notice, break a few windows(from banks if possible) disrupt traffic and you are gonna be on the news, they will call you a terrorist but they at least will know you are there and ready to do shit.
The french know what’s up.
And so begins the parade of Argentinians having their faces eaten off by leopards after voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.
P-p-pero, no es peronista! No es kirchnerista! No puede ser, la 9na es la vencida!
How to loudly announce you’re part of the fasc in-group.
He’s not facist. He’s libertarian two completely different modes of goverment one wants to disband the state the other wants complete and utter control and so wants to make the state into a one party state
Then why does he want to ban abortions, change currency and oppose labor unions? Disband gubbermint my ass
Milei: Denies the dictatorship where 30000 people disappeared hapens.
This guy: he’s not fascist.
lol
There’s this great thread in the Disco Elysium reddit from years ago. This guy posted and complained that all the family first nation first choices that were part of his morals were making him align with the fasc. Having to do the thumb up the ass salute. All that stuff.
You played disco? Try it out. See if you give it a thumbs up.
Can you find that thread? It sounds hilarious. I’ve tried to do some Google searching myself and I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole if old Disco Elysium reddit threads that have made me want to replay it, but I haven’t found that exact one.
It is laughable the use of right wing and fascist! Libertarians want to disempower the corrupt monopoly coercive state and empower individuals - and this makes them fascist! 🤣
Now watch the down votes for this post while also noticing the lack of logical rebuttal!
Make the public dumber, less healthy, less connected, and less informed about the world so they can’t stage a revolution and kill you. Perfect plan really.
It’s just telling the people what they want to hear. Just saying you’ll end corruption once and for all will give you lots of followers. What happens after you win, who cares.
The previous president, Alberto, was (afaik) equally loved by the public, made promises about improvement, corruption, blah blah. Made things worse, now it’s turn for the next guy.
People in South America are already stupid, disconnected & uninformed. No need to make things worse, just maintain the status quo.
Outside of economics, his proposed social politics are so crowd-pleasing, it makes me wonder if he just promised to make abortion illegal just because he wanted votes. Like, why would he care?
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Thought libertarians are for the environment, free market doesn’t do anything for environmental damage. This damage affects everyone, so it violates the non aggression principle.
preventative vs posthumous is the question.
Trump’s advisors are reading that list and salivating.
Javier Milei’s advisors are salivating because they’re clones of the president’s former dog Conan who died in 2017. No I’m not making that up.
Make politics boring again, I say.
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In properly set democracy this should not be possible. President should not have that kind of power to affect other branches of power.
In general president should not have too much power at all, because it is stupid to have just one person to be able to cause so much change in general. Looking at you US.
Presidential offices and ministries are both part of the executive branch of governments, though. Ministries are primarily there to organize the executive’s work, so while removing ministries will affect that, it won’t affect the separation of powers (like, say, the removal of responsibilities from a court or a chamber of parliament would).
That absolutely doesn’t mean that the power to create or disband ministries has to rest with the executive branch.
In fact, it can easily be argued that creating the framework in which the executive branch operates is the domain of the legislative branch - so the creation, merging, splitting or disbanding of ministries should also be a power of the legislative branch.
Or you could argue that it should be a power that should be shared between an administration and parliament, where an administration could introduce a motion to change ministries to parliament, and parliament would have to vote on it.
Lots of possibilities.
Yes, of course! To my knowledge, the creation and removal of ministries does require parliament approval in most parliamentary democracies, and I also prefer that this power is not held by a president alone (as in a purely presidential system). However, in such a presidential system, a president adding or removing ministries still reflects a change in the same branch of government, the executive branch. The process of reorganizing ministries per se is not problematic and actually required for an administration to remain functional and able to accommodate new/shifting tasks.
Is there a Department of Women or is he just going to get rid of every woman in the country?
No girls allowed!
As you can see, cootie infections have declined 63% under my administration.
Argayntina
In case anyone is genuinely curious
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Genders_and_Diversity_(Argentina)
Link broken by formatting for me, this one works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Genders_and_Diversity_(Argentina)
Bolsonaro eliminated the Labor minister first day of his government and made the economy minister absorb its functions. It’s had to re-establish it quietly at half of his government because the economy minister couldn’t keep with the job, but meanwhile slave labor on Brazil skyrocketed.
Uh, if you live in the United States, I’ve got some bad news for you in one year.
You’re on crack if you think the fascists will actually give the libertarians what they want.
K
Proposed remaining ministries:
Ministry of Men
Ministry of Strong
Ministry of Beer and
Ministry of RRRRAAAARRRGGGHHH
Ministry of the paranormal
Ministry of animal cloning
Ministry of human organs harvesting
Ministry of Men
I mean that might make sense.
Department of Transport, so not even the trains will run on time.
He also wants to screw around with the Falklands again
Round 2? Let’s go
Jokes aside, 907 people died which isn’t really convenient
Making the next generation of fools to keep people like him elected.
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Doubtful. Putin for example has been in power for decades. Stalin ruled Russia with an iron fist for the rest of his natural life after rising to power. Unless they’re overthrown, that’s what dictators do. That’s the whole point of dictatorships, to make the leaders the new kings.
There’s nothing stopping that dude from suspending elections and just ruling indefinitely.
I know a few Argentinians and since I live in Chile I know a lot about what’s going on there. They have a lot of useless ministers for almost everything, at this point the previous government could have easily added the ‘ministry of non-important matters’ Their state manages the education really bad, many Argentinians complain about that, all those things managed by the state work really bad and are fueled by taxes. I agree that Milei’s ideas are crazy, but seeing the options in Argentina, he was the less bad option there.
Imagine a state sucking almost every currency from every citizen just to fuel useless state institutions. I hope Argentina will recover with this change.
I guess we are all about to find out how true that is.
posting this in c/boringdystopia is stupid
That’s called dictatorship. Argentinian people are not new to it.
He’s an anarcho-capitalist, he’s going to sell off the assets, point to the short term gains as a success, them when the dust settles we’ll find out he made three billion in bribes from selling their oil to American/Chinese companies.
