I've never seen this before but I'm surprised anyone ever thought in good faith it wasn't tongue-in-cheek. I think one would have to have a cartoon-villain-tears-down-orphanage-to-build-mall view of how people work to not read the dripping tone in this memo.

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throwthrowrow 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I read the memo. Maybe just me, but I don't see any indication that it was tongue in cheek.

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sapphicsnail 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He was literally part of a ring of rich and powerful pedophiles who trafficked underage women.

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llbbdd 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Evil people can make jokes too, and mimicking the formal tone of an official document is a bit as old as time.

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jonny_eh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not really in a charitable mood with this guy right now.

	▲	naIak 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"I know I'm wrong, but still I have to double down on this to save face"

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sapphicsnail 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's certainly a possibility but I also wouldn't put it past him to advocate for something that evil.

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erikpukinskis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What’s the joke?

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squillion 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd only entertain the possibility that it was tongue-in-cheek if it came from someone critical of the World Bank and laissez-faire economics in general, for instance Joseph Stiglitz, who has also been chief economist at the World Bank and was critical of it. But if you're fine with structural adjustment – which many see as basically tear-down-orphanage-to-build-mall – you don't get to make that kind of jokes. It's too close to home.