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▲ datsci_est_2015 2 hours ago

“Seems to be innocuous” is genuinely funny. It must be true for almost all types of corruption and evil that if you zoom in enough, and rob the action of all surrounding context, that it could be described as “innocuous”. How aptly technocratic.

▲estearum an hour ago | parent [-]

This has been an excellent method to detect high-IQ but actually-retarded people. MAGA actions are distilled to their most procedural possible conception, isolated from all relevant context, and then assessed.

May as well go the full nine yards: "The Enabling Act 2026 appears to actually just be an edit to a .docx file. Hmm... My aloofness is a sign of my intelligence."

▲datsci_est_2015 an hour ago | parent [-]

Indeed. Highly correlated (but not strictly) with Great Man syndrome, and Elon Musk fanboyism.

This is why we need the humanities. I remember one of my application essays to my university was on the merits of a “Liberal Education”[1] and I’m very grateful that I was able to properly receive one from my institution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education