inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agoSouth African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’www.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1650arrow-down16
arrow-up1644arrow-down1external-linkSouth African President Calls Out Trump: ‘I’m Sorry I Don’t Have a Plane to Give You’www.rollingstone.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down18·3 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-squareCarnivorousCouch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 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-up6·3 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-up11·3 days agoSo he’s not lying he’s just plain wrong?
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 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-squareJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days 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-squarexyzzy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-23 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.
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.
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.
Nuance doesn’t fly on the Internet