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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's only stupid if you think it's being done in good faith. As a trap, to be used as a pretext to manufacture cause to fire people, sending it on the weekend makes perfect sense.

It's the same reason Trump picked Friday night to purge the military leadership and install regime loyalists -- when authoritarians do things like that, it's because they want people to fail to pay attention.

Hardly anything Trump or Musk have been doing is "stupid" measured by what their real goals actually are, as opposed to naively believing what they claim them to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It’s only stupid if you think it’s being done in good faith

No, it can be both stupid and not in good faith. If it wasn't stupid, they would have done it during a weekday so they didn't look like morons who don't understand what a weekend is. This isn't like firing on a Friday to avoid the news cycle. This is something that was obviously going to backfire on Musk.

If they didn't want to look like idiots they would have done it on a Wednesday so people would be panicking about getting it done before the weekend and the general populace would have seen it as government workers not checking email for two working days. The timing they picked was guaranteed failure from the moment they pushed send on a Saturday.