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Public lying has turned out well for Elon Musk. It is really up to the rest of us to make public lying turn out less well.
by moloch-hai 4y ago
Public lying has turned out well for Elon Musk. It is really up to the rest of us to make public lying turn out less well.
- LightG 4y agoAgreed. That's because of the power dynamic. People are suckers for it. If most of us regularly lie at work or with our partners, we get sacked.
- headsoup 4y agoAnd all of the other powerful and influential business and political figures? Unless Elon is some kind of special new liar?
- ImHereToVote 4y agoOnly those in power that aren't part of the neo-liberal order are liars. Everybody knows that.
- jjj123 4y agoYou think the world’s richest man isn’t part of the neoliberal elite?
- ImHereToVote 4y agoI think he has been outcast from the in group for showing that Twitter was essentially ran by the FBI.
- moloch-hai 4y agoElon is a bigger and more public liar than people are used to. It seems hard to believe such big lies could be got away with, so are believed. More usually, the biggest liars are more vague about what and when to expect any supposed benefit if you back them. Thus, "keep out illegals", "trickle-down prosperity", "keep brown-skinned people away". How these would be benefits, if delivered, is carefully not explained.