• frazw@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    If you are intelligent you wouldn’t need to talk about it because, people would know it from your thoughts and actions.

    If you are a good leader you wouldn’t need to talk about it because there would be more people following you than protesting you.

    If you are good at making deals you wouldn’t need to talk about it because you’d have a stack of deals to prove it.

    If you are good at business you wouldn’t need to talk about it because you would have a lot more successful companies than bankrupt companies in your history.

    Etc etc etc.

    This smacks of “look how well things are going !! If things were going badly would we be able to afford all this gold?”

    Beware the man who is eager to tell you how good they are at something.

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      I know people that like Trump in the UK and the thing I’ve realised is people don’t check anything, if orange man says something they believe it.

      When I’ve been shitting on Trump my friend said yeah but he’s a good business man though and I’m like no he isn’t, he started life on easy mode and has messed that up several times. Hell man can’t even profit from a casino.

      Sadly though it doesn’t matter if people are willing to believe a 5 second sound bite and it takes 5 minutes and some knowledge to debunk that claim then it’s futile as they’ll just put out more sound bites.

      I find it ironic that in a world with a wealth of information at our finger tips people just don’t care enough to check. I’m not a smart man, but I was gifted with the power of curiosity and a willingness to look up stuff and find the truth. People are just ignorant on the whole and only care about surface level stuff.