I think it communicates maliciousness not idiocy

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

	▲	davorak an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> adequately explained by stupidity What is the adequate explanation via stupidity in this case though? If there is one that sure maybe we should lean that way without further evidence.
	▲	voxl 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Keep word: adequately. This is not adequately explained by stupidity.
	▲	chris_wot an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It does occur to me that you can be both malicious and stupid at the same time.
	▲	Applejinx 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This gets complicated when the malicious have also read the saying and intentionally feign stupidity, but that's just chaos politics.