• YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    As far as I know Siskind has never deleted any idea for the contrarianism motivating it getting out of hand. It’s just against his character. Much more likely he considered it revealing his power level (even if he recognised himself as never having really endorsed the idea besides contrarianism in the first place).

    Less charitably, more plausibly, at the outside he recognised that it’s a stupid fucking thing to say that makes him look just not smart.

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      6 months ago

      That’s the trouble with talking about thoroughly disingenuous people, you get bogged down with defining if they meant to mean what they wrote. It’s all optics.