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		divbzero on Dec 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail having issues The analogous claim here would be: “This is why you don’t entrust critical services to third parties.”

notriddle on Dec 15, 2020 [–]

The name for this is "victim blaming." Someone suffers from a catastrophe (or from abuse, but that's not what happened here), and you imagine a way that it could've been avoided, never mind that things could've gone just as badly wrong the other way around.

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