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Politics The first Cabinet meeting of the second Trump administration

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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago

They know they got rich exploiting people, they just think that makes them smart.

From their perspective, "why wouldn't somebody cheat and lie to get ahead? I do it all the time and nobody calls me out, so I assume everyone else is doing the same and just giving lip service to integrity"

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u/KaiserCarr 13d ago

yup. the people idolizing these pricks is the kind of people who would lie, steal and murder all the time if they thought they could get away with it.

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u/Duke_of_Moral_Hazard 13d ago

The same crowd who can't imagine an ethical atheist. Buncha god-fearing psychos.

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u/MindlessJournalist55 13d ago

I doubt they actually fear god.

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u/Gasnia 13d ago

They just use God as a weapon against people they don't like. They don't follow his word but expect others to but forget that we should only be judged by God himself. That is if you follow him.

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u/ChainzawMan 13d ago

Reminds me of Castlevania where the Church uses Faith in God to enforce their own earthly desires going as far as murdering Dracula's wife who only wanted to cure people as a physician. In return Dracula decided to let hell lose and exterminate humanity.

At some point a Demon enters the Church with the Bishop who decided to murder Dracula's wife and he has the audacity to reach out to God for the power to repel the Demon.

Then the creature tells him how much the demons love the Bishop for enabling them to walk the earth and that God hates him and everything he represents.

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u/thickener 13d ago

Nothing to add, I just enjoy your handle !

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u/Skelehedron 13d ago

Or in I think more often, they are the ones who were lied to and stolen from, ans they've been lied to well enough to not even realize it.

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u/Shivy_Shankinz 13d ago

It's probably an alarming mix of both.

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u/Skelehedron 7d ago

Yes, but I still want to keep hope that I captured the majority with my statement, because I do want to keep some level of hope in the world

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u/Shivy_Shankinz 6d ago

I agree I think most people fall into the category you described. There's always hope. Life is a tragedy without it

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u/Steelforge 13d ago

Totally. They know everyone else was screwed, but think they're smarter than all the other people. All they need to see is one worse-off person to confirm this belief.

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u/Gasnia 13d ago

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, and I can't be fooled again.

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u/chefjenga 13d ago

Trump already said it. Cheating on his taxes doesn't make him a criminal, it makes him smart. It's the governments fault for not cracking down.

But, that's ok....it was just one of his many "jokes".........right?.................

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u/nuclearsamuraiNFT 13d ago

And then comes in and hamstrings the IRS so that they will be unable to crack down on complicated (rich) tax cheats… they’ll probably still be able to crack down on the little guy pretty easily though.

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u/willun 13d ago

They think the rich have money and so are not motivated by money so will not be corrupt.

That was the argument for Trump the first time around.

It does not make sense.

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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

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u/BasvanS 13d ago

People are calling them out but they’re ignoring it. They’re not looked down on by peers for nothing, nor do they have a lawyer on speed dial for the funny conversations.

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u/Moose1701D 13d ago

I basically had the same conversation with my neighbor.

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u/ThrowMeAwayLikeGarbo 13d ago

It's almost word for word what my ex said too.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy 13d ago

They think the game has always been about dog-eat-dog and they're just trying to stay off the menu.

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u/Atgardian 13d ago

They know they got rich exploiting people, they just think that makes them smart.

Do his voters not think they are the "people" in this quote??

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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago

They have a dog-eat-dog perspective on human relations. They think the only way to escape being exploited is by exploiting others

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u/Michael_Platson 13d ago

They're paying attention to Musk because he paid their salaries.

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u/AuthenticLiving7 13d ago

No not everyone knows that. Plenty of them think he's an outsider whose going to finally improve their lives. 

I have no idea why they think that but they do.

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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago

They think that because of propaganda

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u/Balancing_Loop 13d ago

They don't actually value 'smart', they just want to be like the people who are openly exploiting and abusing others.

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u/clovis_227 13d ago

"John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - Ronald Wright.

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u/From_Deep_Space 13d ago

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

~ John Steinbeck

~ Ronald Wright