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    1. 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👇
  1. …in reply to @axbom
    “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…
    1. …in reply to @axbom
      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_deniability
      1. …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.
        1. …in reply to @axbom
          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.
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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. #ManagementByDeniability