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jfengelyesterday at 12:48 PM4 repliesview on HN

It is often asked what an actual foreign agent would do differently if he were trying to destroy the country.

I don't think that's entirely valid. Nonetheless, there is enough overlap that the question keeps getting raised.

So... perhaps that's what you're missing?


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sigwinchyesterday at 2:04 PM

Or, as the Canadian press wonders, right now, today and continuously, how can we tell if he’s lost his mind?

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Tangurena2yesterday at 5:08 PM

Hanlon's razor still applies: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" [0]. He might be such a foreign agents, however we know that he is unintelligent and narcissistic, therefore everyone who makes him look stupid/bad is suddenly "public enemy number one."

Notes:

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

thranceyesterday at 4:13 PM

It's easy to pin this all on a foreign enemy, but this "theory" is completely invalidated by noticing that Trump receives support from all the most powerful person of the country: Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Ellison, Bezos... America doesn't need foreign adversaries to destroy itself.

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