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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But that’s such a backwards way of looking at it. Can they really be that naive? I think similarly: politicians say things they don’t mean all the time.

However I assume many of them mean the bad things but don’t mean a lot of good things. Politicians can be narcissistic, corrupt, power hungry individuals: of course they’ll promise the moon but deliver what benefits them personally or do the minimum to get themselves reelected. How can you be foolish enough to think the opposite?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Can they really be that naive?

Yes. Source: I was like that, and my mother is still like that.