LogFAQs > #909623005

It's not the early stages.

StealThisSheen posted...

No, that's what you tried to backpedal it into. You were very much saying you were glad that it would reflect on Nikki to idiots from the beginning. Our problem was never "Will it happen or not," it was that you were admitting it happening was dumb/unfair, yet were still "Oh but this is great!" and not accepting how dumb that was.

OK so if that's the true core of it, you've never really explained why that's dumb. I see it as a somewhat cynical, jaded view of how a conversation will go, while accentuating the silver lining - that Nikki will face the criticisms she escaped for a long time.

It's not dumb to look on the bright side of people's stupidity.

For instance: I completely get what Steph was trying to say with that idiotic philanthropy tweet. Most people here, if they're honest with themselves, know it wasn't as bad as it looked. The problem isn't really her meaning (reading the context of the quote it was nowhere near as bad as it seemed), it's that the optics of it to the average person are obviously terrible. And yet do you have a problem with using it as a stick with which to beat Stephanie? Because nobody else seems to.

An upside of people misinterpreting that tweet is that it throws Stephanie's competence as an executive into question, which is a good conversation to have, one that possibly needs to happen, even under a false pretense. Sound familiar?
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