machination

It is naive to think that the state will be this hyper-logical ultra-fair machination.

I'm trying to figure out how to get Adam Curtis to make a doco about all of this political machination.

They explicitly state [0] that upvotes and downvotes are fuzzed, it really isn't a matter of some weird machination.

I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or you don't believe in the pretty damn clear political machination at play.

For every attack, subterfuge, and machination that has been public there have likely been dozens of others attempted.

If I were Russian, I'd want a Putin at the head of the table in a geopolitical climate that engineers that kind of machination, too.

This was actually a machination by the current system administrator who wanted the project to fail because we were impinging on his territory.

The introduction of universal literacy is but a terrible machination to deprive us hard-working scribes of our wages.

This is all a product of decades of machination and effort to craft this cultural zeitgeist of zealotry and active war against one another while robber barons pillage the commons.

My favorite new example being Bono who, while pulling at everyone's heart strings is, behind the curtains, evading taxes in Ireland through some machination involving passing money through The Netherlands.

Engineers default to putting in so much machination of caches and dirty-flags to avoid redundant processing that they end up making something that does way more work to avoid work than a decent implementation of just blindly doing the work all-gas-no-brakes.

Whereas more pedestrian people like me think it's more government incompetence than Illuminati machination, the NSA revelations are proof positive to people of that ilk that the overarching conspiracy they've believed was happening is patently real.