inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days agoSouth African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’www.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1646arrow-down15
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minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down18·2 days agoI don’t even think he’s lying here. I mean, what he’s saying is not true, but he seems genuinely convinced that it is true. It’s very hard to change anyone’s mind about anything.
minus-squareJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoTo be fair, confidently lying is kind of his brand. Unless it’s about a crime he’s involved in. Then he’s a machine that spits out I don’t know, we need to learn more, etc.
minus-squareCarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days agoThis seems like a meaningless distinction for someone who has access to the intelligence apparatus of the American empire lol
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoYeah I hear he doesn’t go to those meetings or they gotta have pictures to keep his attention or something.
minus-squareContentedness@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 days agoSo he’s not lying he’s just plain wrong?
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·2 days agoYeah. I think lying requires intent. He has done plenty of lying. This was just a simple musing anyway, not trying to defend the piece of shit.
minus-squarexyzzy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoNuance doesn’t fly on the Internet
I don’t even think he’s lying here. I mean, what he’s saying is not true, but he seems genuinely convinced that it is true. It’s very hard to change anyone’s mind about anything.
To be fair, confidently lying is kind of his brand.
Unless it’s about a crime he’s involved in. Then he’s a machine that spits out I don’t know, we need to learn more, etc.
This seems like a meaningless distinction for someone who has access to the intelligence apparatus of the American empire lol
Yeah I hear he doesn’t go to those meetings or they gotta have pictures to keep his attention or something.
So he’s not lying he’s just plain wrong?
Yeah. I think lying requires intent. He has done plenty of lying. This was just a simple musing anyway, not trying to defend the piece of shit.
Nuance doesn’t fly on the Internet