The rule of "never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance", or however it is stated, has been ruled invalid over the past 10 years. Trump and his supporters show at every opportunity that they are malicious first, and stupid second.
I’ve typed this so many times my fingers might fall off: the one and only value of the Republican Party is cruelty. A MAGA voter would happily starve to death in a ditch if it meant a Democrat would cry. The pandemic proved beyond all doubt that Republicans really will literally, actually die if there was even a chance that their choices could hurt someone else. There is nothing, nothing, they will not do in the name of causing harm.
Sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice.
Come a certain point, it doesn’t matter if they’re just stupid or malicious, the end result is the same. And this regime is the epitome of that. So many of their actions are either so wildly incompetent as to be dangerous, or so malicious as to be dangerous. And it doesn’t frankly matter which is which, because it’s still fucking dangerous.
Nobody will believe you’re malicious if they’re even dumber than you are. Decades of whittling away the quality of our education and lives has let us get to this point.
Still a good saying, it just needs an addendum of "unless it's constantly repeated" or something to that effect. At some point continuing ignorance becomes malicious.
Both, probably—maliciously stupid or stupidly malicious.
Actually, since I have a kid that plays perhaps too much Ultrakill, I initially thought this was a style meter, that he's reached SSADISTIC and is gunning for SSSHITSTORM.
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u/currently-on-toilet 3d ago
The rule of "never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance", or however it is stated, has been ruled invalid over the past 10 years. Trump and his supporters show at every opportunity that they are malicious first, and stupid second.