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The only way to predict the future is to make it. Hence two main paths to avoiding accountability for the future: 1. Showing the receipts for how you resisted. 2. Plausible deniability of creating it: Ergo: “I don’t remember a conversation like that.” Thread👇On twitter.com
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2021 Jan 26
Mood +2 🙂
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“Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by others in an organizational hierarchy because of…Permalink On twitter.com
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2021 Jan 26
Mood +2 🙂
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a lack or absence of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved in or at least willfully ignorant of the actions.” — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniabilityPermalink On twitter.com
2021 Jan 26
Mood -4 🙁
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…in reply to @axbom
Creating the conditions for “plausible avoidance of responsibility for one's future actions or knowledge” of course requires foresight. Ironically: It requires that one creates this future. And it’s created by having actions carried out covertly on one’s behalf by 3rd parties.Permalink On twitter.com
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2021 Jan 26
Mood +1 🙂
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In effect, this *encourages* actions being carried out without the knowledge of leaders, to safeguard them from accountability. Which means mercenary operatives are given incentive to act independently, keeping leadership in the dark.Permalink On twitter.com
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2021 Jan 26
Mood +3 🙂
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This gives us reason to truly question who we are allowing to create the future and what their end-goal is, when even the leadership – for their own protection – strives to know as little as possible. #ManagementByDeniabilityPermalink On twitter.com
2021 Jan 26
Mood +1 🙂