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spaceywillytoday at 2:20 PM4 repliesview on HN

Hanlon’s Razor

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

Someone probably just screwed up


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input_shtoday at 2:24 PM

You don't screw up something this major, it doesn't happen by accident nor by incompetence.

They had plans to bomb something south of that airport, they had to postpone those plans now that the info is public enough that whatever their target was is definitely aware of those plans.

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OldSchooltoday at 2:27 PM

If there was ever a time when the old Soviet Union could have won the Cold War... Fortunately for us, the window of top-down incompetence came far too late.

fuzzylightbulbtoday at 2:30 PM

Their stupidity is a true threat to our lives. Regardless of how you want to classify it we need to remove it as a threat.