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TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, a psychological concept wherein you strategically fail to perform something you don't actually want to do (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 months ago by gitgud@lemmy.ml to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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This is illustrated by getting elected on a platform of erasing student loan debt and then pretending that you can't do anything about it, or claiming to be against genocide and drawing out or never performing the process of pulling financial and political support for an ally who's committing genocide.

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, that turned political quickly.

Yeah...

After reading the title I thought of that person in seemingly every office'workplace who fucks shit up on purpose so it gets assigned to someone else.

[–] pelotron@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

Me unloading the dishwasher