RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by kbenson on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:15PM (#31020972)

My initial reaction to that is just that he likely was too green and not groomed enough. We expect normal people to not know everything already and be willing to change their stance on something when new information comes to light (even if it's just new to them). When that happens to someone in power, we're upset because how could they not already have thought deeply about all the specific aspects anyone could bring up about that topic, as well as the 20,000 other things that might be asked of them randomly.

And the only thing that's worse for them than changing their mind is when they admit they haven't come to a decision on that yet, which is just admitting up front that they don't know as much as they should and are fallible.

It's not just that we don't expect politicians to by truthful, we disincentivize and sometimes outright punish any natural and truthful behavior that we would expect in a normal person, and force them into the mold we so like to criticize.

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Re:RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested by Gollapalli on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:43AM (#31023760)

I think that goes to the matter of leadership. Politicans aren't normal people. They're supposed to be the best people, who surround themselves with the other kinda-best people. We expect them to be better than us. We want them to be better than us. We want elites. And then we ask them to not make us feel bad about it by pretending to be the same as the rest of us. But it's pretend. It's a game we play. At the end of the day, elites are supposed to act like elites, and that means knowing what they're talking about, and making us feel like someone competent is at the wheel and everything is going to be okay.

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