andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> A general rule: when faced with the alternative
> explanations of sheer fuckupery or active malice for
> any bad outcome, sheer fuckupery is the best bet 9 out
> of 10 times.
This holds for bureaucracies -- but for those at the top of bureaucracies or comfortably within the ruling class, there is a third alternative which might be called innocent malice: see the posts quoting Barbara Bush. Objectively it's sheer malice; from 'within her mind' it is sheer . . . what?
Carrol