Accusing opponents of wanting to do what you’ve already done... seems common enough it should already have a name.
Projective suspicion?
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Weird thing is it often sincere. Like a child accusing a parent of wanting to eat all the candy. Inability to conceive of intentions more sophisticated than your own.
Adjacent to Dunning-Kruger.
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This Tom Gauld joke is part of that dynamic. Simpler goals are more robust so the beget a false confidence in the fakeness/hypocrisy of more fragile goals.
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In Cartmanand, Cartman can’t grok that the adult security guard won’t work for free rides.
