I think you're underestimating the heavy lifting being done by "adequately". Does stupidity adequately explain a corporation doing evil shit that made them a bunch of money? Absolutely not.

I consider the whole set of razors to be pseudologic. Just because something helps pick a conclusion regardless of context doesn't mean it helps pick the correct conclusion.

I also don't get why they seem to be popular with people who like to act scientific, because they seem very unscientific to me.

But yeah, hanlon's is specifically stupid and I suspect it was popularized precisely because it advocates a default level of reasonable doubt for malicious people to hide in.

This is a better way of saying what I tried to say in my own comment

This as a life philosophy leads to violent road rage.

Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…

It isn't reversed compared to how this meme format is usually used: the glasses-on image is on the bottom, and associated with the viewpoint OP is saying is correct/better.

If one hasn't seen (or has forgotten) the film, this is the way that makes sense, since glasses (generally) improve the wearer's vision.

This meme's canonical format is however in fact at odds with the actual scene in the 2002 film:

A related meme form which doesn't have this ambiguity is the much older they live sunglasses - here the position of the two images are used less consistently (though as with peter parker, usually glasses-on is the lower one) but the glasses being on showing the truth actually fits with how it is in the film.

Nolnah knew

Did it have no upside or is there a very clear case of corruption?

Keep in mind that it doesn't have to benefit everyone in the US or the US as a whole. It's a few people who are massively benefiting from it and they are conveniently Trumps financial backers.

Upside of adding and removing tariffs like he's doing is being able to selectively suppress stock prices, drive them down scoop them up at a discount then roll back the relevant tariff and wait for the stock price recover

Trump may be the perfect idiot to act as the facade of the capitalist class and pull all the spotlights on his person, but he isn't the one calling all the shots. As always, it's the capitalists that really shape the direction of politics, and now they have a great loud distraction so they can pass all their fascist policies to terrorize the working class and make it all look like the decision of a few bad apples that corrupted "democracy".

When all this is done, assuming that there will be another election then, they will say that the big bad cheeto man has been defeated and now we can live harmoniously again, returning to the blissful ignorance of everyday class exploitation.

False. Their acts are out of malice not stupidity. Whenever they say something stupid, they don't believe in it. They have an agenda to push.

A prime example is the recent admission from Carney of always having known the rules based order to be a convenient lie https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i6wqYYx4QtM

Not really they're always motivated by self-interest and corruption. For example when Nick Shirley makes an obviously fake documentary about "fraud in Minnesota" he's not just "doing it because he's dumb". He's doing it because he's receiving massive amounts of money to demonize that population.