• Wytch@lemmy.zip
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    2日前

    The amount of times I’ve heard over the years from “common sense” folk that old chestnut that all politicians are liars, just makes my head hurt. No Uncle Dylan, I just don’t think you can tell the difference between a lie and a half-truth, or even a lie and a fact. That “wisdom” is a hundred+ year old cliche and Trump’s popularity proves that those people have never known what a man who is lying if his lips are moving actually looks like.

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      Totally! I really like that the article explains that Trump doesn’t lie, but he bullshits. Apparently the reason is that lying means the liar knows what’s true, while a bullshitter doesn’t care if the bullshit is true or false. This is one of the reasons Trump is unique.