Politicians sometimes lie because it confuses others and gives them pleasure.
  • Fuck Yankies@lemmy.ml
    2·
    21 minutes ago

    Because it doesn’t matter? It’s the old “a president I’d like to have a beer with” problem.

    You can pretend as much as you’d like that the democratic process is tethered to rationale, but at the end of the day the whole system is set up to be a dog and pony show.

    It’s always been a glorified popularity contest and has nothing to do with meritocracy, i.e judging cases upon the merits and demerits.

    The problem imho is usability. The system has been shaped to be a popularity contest, but it could very well be shaped into something else.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 hours ago

      That’s definitely part of it. But he’s also a pathological liar. He can’t *not* lie. His brain is borked.

      Also he’s a raging narcissist and a sociopath. Which helps.

      • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        I’ve met a pathological liar, I don’t keep up with trump.

        But this person would quite literally like to me about everything and I could never understand why. Even small things like “is tomorrow a holiday?”. he also had a habit of telling people fun facts but no one believed him (and sometimes it was true)

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      5 hours ago

      Exactly. Most people stop lying once they’re confronted with evidence that they’re lying because they feel shame.

      That’s something this chonky asshole has never had to deal with.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    5 hours ago

    Said this many times over the years, sometimes get love, sometimes hate.

    Trump is not lying. (OK, there are very rare moments when it’s clear he knows he’s lying but his brain quickly reframes the situation to be “true”.) The man is the wildest example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) I’ve ever heard of. Mom had it, so I’m not using the word as it’s used now days, I mean it literally, by the DSM V.

    People like that can’t be wrong. If it comes out his mouth, it has to be true. If you’re appalled at the obvious bullshit, you’ve likely never been close with someone that has NPD. This is perfectly normal for them, it’s just that most people are smarter than Trump. These people are unable to admit fault. When you and I dodge our failures, at some level we know we’re dancing around. Trump does not as he could never have been wrong in the first place.

    I remember when I woke up to the fact that mom had never said she was wrong or apologized, not once in 50-years. I struggle to put that into strong enough words, never known another human like that. Coworker claimed her dad had NPD because when he fucked up he’d give her flowers instead of saying he was wrong. That action is him admitting fault. Imagine Trump “apologizing” like that. Can’t, can you?

    I’m not shocked at his BS at all. I’m shocked so many can’t see the clear truth of the man.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I believe you mean “alternative facts”? Just like I have an “alternative sandwich”, and an “alternative sky”, and an “alternative reality”. All of these are better and more convenient than the real thing.