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		iamwil 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The great software quality collapse or, how we nor... I hear people talk like this on the phone. The one I hear a lot is: "It's not about X, it's about Y1. It's about Y2. It's about Y3." Where Y is usually something humanizing.

arwhatever 65 days ago [–]

Proving or disproving intent is hard, in court trials often taking days of witness testimony and jury deliberation.

These hot-take/title patterns "X is about Y1" are exploiting the difficulty of disproving them.

I often see it in the pattern of "Behavior of Group I Dislike is About Bad Motive."

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