That reminds me of this in "Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms of Karl Kraus" edited and translated by Harry Zohn:
"The author is so deep that it took me, the reader, a long time to get to his surface."

Which I think may be (partly?) expressing the same thought by inversion?

I assumed you were doing a variant of the Bellman's Rule of Three in The Hunting of the Snark!

@timbale.bsky.social
From Civilisation to Celebrity Traitors: the BBC’s cultural decline has been astonishing - Bijan Omrani
Ironically in the Telegraph which started declining from being a serious newspaper in 2001 when (I recall?) it endorsed Iain Duncan-Smith & even the Mail endorsed Ken Clarke?

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
--Luke 15:7, King James bible version.
--My (and Wayne's World?) version - append:
But in this case: NOT!
@publicradionerd.bsky.social

I like the dancing, but I don’t like the camera trying to join in.

In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...

A generic (Jenrick?) Conservative Party / Kemi Badenoch / Conservative Home / Daily Telegraph flowchart:
Was the deplorable event / policy:
A: before 1997: goto D;
B: in 1997-2010: goto D;
C: after 2010: goto D;
D: throw a fair die:
*1-4: blame Tony Blair
*5: blame Keir Starmer
*6: blame both

My degrees are in CS, not law. So like my granny said, if she tells me a mosquito can pull a plow, then hook that mf up!

"If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof."
--Reported by Bertrand Russell as said by Hardy, probably said to Russell!

I should add I think it extremely unlikely that Hardy actually believed this would work, and that it was probably Hardy being intentionally a tad eccentric.

Mathematician & convinced aetheist G H Hardy had what he called his "anti-God battery" when watching cricket: an umbrella, thick sweaters, papers to referee, etc. The idea was God would think Hardy expected rain so he could get on with his work so God would have the sun shine all day to spite Hardy.

'It is true that none of us is personally responsible for the events and activities of our varied ancestors. But take care, if disowning any possible connection to events before you were born, to check if you are content to sever any sense of identification with Shakespeare or winning WW2 too' (!)

Ah, you noticed!
I was about to point that out with a devastatingly funny riposte, but fortunately for all of us I've forgotten what it was.

Careful Marge, the 'Gazpacho police' will be after you with Commie talk like that.

(For those who don't remember amidst all the MAGA chaos, Ms Taylor Greene once confused the Spanish soup with Hitler's secret police.)