The difference between a snafu, a shitshow, and a clusterfuck

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  1. bicketybam

    bicketybam Well-Known Member

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    bicketybam Well-Known Member

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    I'm torn as to whether the Jets latest playoff drought is the result of a clusterfuck or a shitshow.
     
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    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    It can't be both?
     
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    bicketybam Well-Known Member

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    I think it can be as the article states a shitshow shares many elements with a clusterfuck.
     
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    It’s a clusterfuck. As stated the difference between the 2 is a clusterfuck is in part due to bad decisions….

    “A clusterfuck may come to possess all those characteristics, but is more properly identified by the decisions that produced it than its outcome.”

    Literally textbook clusterfuck if you the read the 3 main points of a clusterfuck


    Illusion. A clusterfuck starts with the decision maker’s belief that a goal is much easier to attain than it actually is.

    Impatience. A misguided idea alone does not produce a clusterfuck. The idea also needs a champion determined to shove it along, usually over the objections of more-knowledgeable underlings.

    Incompetence. When errors of information and timing meet blatantly stupid decisions by people who should know better, disaster tends to ensue.
     
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    bicketybam Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for clearing that up!
     

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