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kpete

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Tue Apr 20, 2021, 09:51 AM Apr 2021

"On Bullshit"

“When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.” — Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit, 2005
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"On Bullshit" (Original Post) kpete Apr 2021 OP
K&R...lot of bullshit flying around these days masquerading as truth...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2021 #1
Describes Trump to a "T" nt Colgate 64 Apr 2021 #2
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