• lambalicious
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        I have never really seen that postulate as practical in the real world. I prefer my own version (EDIT: addendum; failed to describe properly):

        Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by monetary profit.

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          I always go with if the results of the stupidity are indistinguishable from malice, you can go ahead and attribute it to malice.

          • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            And racist and hateful, and lastly they’re stupid and lazy. Go back to football you dumb cunts you’re fucking up the entire world

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              They are racist because they are too stupid to understand that immigrants are helping their economy much more than they are hurting it.

              They are hateful because they are too stupid. They hate what they can’t comprehend (which is pretty much everything outside their small bubble).

              • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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                Stupid doesn’t automatically lead to hateful

                That has to be taught or trained in, which is the issue I take with these hateful trash “people”

                They’re monsters who create monsters who vote for monsters

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                  3 days ago

                  It doesn’t lead automatically to hateful, it however helps a lot. It’s much easier to turn a stupid person into a hateful one than to do it with an educated person.

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                    OK, sure whatever.

                    The point is these voters aren’t just ignorant, they’re behaving in a way they were embarrassed about 10-15 years ago, and now they’re “out.” They can not and will not be given a pass that they’re just “not bright enough to be civil.” Fuck that to the moon

                    They’re despicable awful hateful people who leverage their authority to hurt innocent people. Period

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            3 days ago

            That’s where the “malice” part of the original kicks in. I failed to note in my post that my own version is an addendum to the rule, not a replacement.

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        If your choices and actions consistently hurt other people, and you refuse to listen when people point it out and change your ways, then you’re evil. No matter how stupid you are.

        There are plenty of dumb and/or ignorant people who are kind and generous and who are not fucking bigots who make life hell for everyone around them.

        Edit, typo