• Wytch@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    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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      5 days ago

      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.