You don’t seem to understand the distinction between ‘mislead’ and ‘lie to the face.’ Or, you know, you’re lying to our face. Which would be a stupid plan, but maybe you’re doing it on purpose.
Even politicians lying to their audience’s faces is quite rare, in the USA. That it’s become meaningfully popular in the last 10 years is considered extremely notable and a sign of the decay and apocalypse of the United States, and to lesser degrees other Western countries. Bill Clinton got caught lying to Congress’s face about a trivial but embarrassing matter and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” might as well be the words on his tombstone even though he suffered no real material consequences for it, because it’s very rare and no one will forget it.
Lying is hard. Being misinformed, or interpreting true fair information in a biased way to reach a biased conclusion, or writing the bottom line first, or quoting true statements in such a way as to give a deliberately misleading impression, are easy. Politicians do them all the time, and this is expected. Journalists did it a little until the Web revolution and now do it more than that, and this is, again, considered very notable and a sign of the decay of the industry. Scientists and experts do it a little, and almost always the first two types, but when they do even a little of the latter types this makes people riot and consider it very notable and a sign of the decay of the field.
For anyone under 30, 10 years of polical lying, or 20 years for journalists “lying” is a long time and could be seen as a new reality, especially seeing as it seems to be working out quite well for the liars so it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
It’s still not been common until much more recently than that. Five years at most, which is not a new normal. It hasn’t been working out that well for anyone except Trump himself and there’s a decent chance it explodes on his death (which will almost certainly be before ’32).
You don’t seem to understand the distinction between ‘mislead’ and ‘lie to the face.’ Or, you know, you’re lying to our face. Which would be a stupid plan, but maybe you’re doing it on purpose.
Even politicians lying to their audience’s faces is quite rare, in the USA. That it’s become meaningfully popular in the last 10 years is considered extremely notable and a sign of the decay and apocalypse of the United States, and to lesser degrees other Western countries. Bill Clinton got caught lying to Congress’s face about a trivial but embarrassing matter and “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” might as well be the words on his tombstone even though he suffered no real material consequences for it, because it’s very rare and no one will forget it.
Lying is hard. Being misinformed, or interpreting true fair information in a biased way to reach a biased conclusion, or writing the bottom line first, or quoting true statements in such a way as to give a deliberately misleading impression, are easy. Politicians do them all the time, and this is expected. Journalists did it a little until the Web revolution and now do it more than that, and this is, again, considered very notable and a sign of the decay of the industry. Scientists and experts do it a little, and almost always the first two types, but when they do even a little of the latter types this makes people riot and consider it very notable and a sign of the decay of the field.
For anyone under 30, 10 years of polical lying, or 20 years for journalists “lying” is a long time and could be seen as a new reality, especially seeing as it seems to be working out quite well for the liars so it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
It’s still not been common until much more recently than that. Five years at most, which is not a new normal. It hasn’t been working out that well for anyone except Trump himself and there’s a decent chance it explodes on his death (which will almost certainly be before ’32).