• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    You’ve obviously never talked to a business major for any length of time. He has confidence, which is what the “Con” in conartist comes from.

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      14 days ago

      And con artists are usually quite well educated. Maybe not in an academic sense, but in an understanding people way. I feel trump isn’t really that tho; his con is being an arrogant bully and the inheritance he started with makes that work enough somehow.

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        14 days ago

        I know con artists in real life. They are not educated. They just speak fast and make up ideas that laymen wont call them out on. When they unknowing try that on someone who has a background in the specific field, they fall apart or get angry. A lot of conartists don’t even know they’re doing it because they’ve been doing it for so long, they’ve conned themselves.