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So Nasrallah forgets about 2750 tons of fertilizer in the middle of Beirut. I suggest you folks start thinking about what kind of shit he's hiding under your feet that he doesn't forget about.

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Nasrallah is also on record of threatening to blow up a similar ammonium stash in Haifa; now that stash was moved upon this threat. Maybe he did Israel a big favor (implicitly) by means of these threats. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost.com/middle-east/nasrall...

It is funny (in a very dark way) how a couple of incompetent officials can destroy a city more efficiently than an opposing state-level actor with hundreds of rockets.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed- in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. …

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

https://theunityprocess.com/on-stupidity-by-dietrich-bonhoef...

(More at the link. It's good.)

Maybe replace "stupid" with "corrupted and incompetent"

But not necessarily stupid (and then all the more dangerous)

No. Curruption follows its own (twisted)rationale, and incompetence is not necessarily stupidity (it may be mere lack of experience or expertise), though it can be.

Bonhoeffer's key is that stupidity is insensible to reason. You literally cannot out-think it. That's not true of corruption, and at least some incompetence.

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