(April 18, 2025 at 7:40 am)Belacqua Wrote:Labelling facts as fake news, is of course lying, and as the author above points out, it's a petty churlish reaction whenever he hears anything he doesn't like. "Snarky zinger", he was just his usual shallow crass bullying self, I can't claim to know whether people like that, I imagine some do, but then there is no shortage sadly, of bigots, who revel in such displays.(April 18, 2025 at 7:25 am)Alan V Wrote: I literally don't know anyone IRL who talks the way Trump does, which I take to mean "lies all the time." Facts are still facts, no matter how many times someone denies them. Honesty must include the attempt to be accurate. Trump doesn't even try, and apparently never admits he is wrong or takes corrections.
Oh well yeah, if you're defining "talks like Trump" as "constantly lies." I don't know anybody like that either.
What I meant was that if he doesn't like a reporter he just says "You're fake news." In his debate with Hillary, he basically won when he made a snarky zinger as a comeback. That's what people like.
We talk to WIN, not to have a conversation.
The last part amply sums up why I will always consider "Senator Palpatine", to be a loser, to the core, he can only ever feel good when he's making someone else feel bad, such behaviour defines the words cowardly, and bully for me.