Success is awarded to the confident. You can be an absolute weird idiot and still, in the right circumstances, get massive success just because people assume there’s a reason you seem so confident, and who are they to second guess that confidence?
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LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
How is it that the weirdest dudes keep ending up with so much power and influence. Like, this is just bigoted shit obviously, but it’s weird bigoted shit. What is it about people that makes them look at a weirdo freak (derogatory) like this and think “this is a man I need to have direct the entirety of my belief system going forward”?
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Confidence is often mistaken for competence. I’d like to believe that’s why “con(fidence) men” are ever successful.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s literally the only reason Trump is where he is. He’s not actually good at anything.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think a part of it is you have to be weird to want to chase power. Normal people aren’t thinking 24/7 about how they can leap frog their way into power
naught101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The other part is that normal people as party of a well functioning society need to actively maintain systems that keep fuckwits from accumulation to much power, and we haven’t been doing that.
plyth@feddit.org 2 months ago
Useful idiots. There needs to be somebody who stands in front of the crowd and takes the blame. That person must be weird enough that people don’t keep following once the support is removed.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Then they decide to get makeovers or permanent eyeliner like that’s supposed to make up for all the other weird shit?
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Yeah, why can’t they just be a weirdo freak (celebratory) like the rest of us anarchists?
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.
ghterve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have zero idea who he is. Or Thiel for that matter …
plyth@feddit.org 2 months ago
Look it up. By now it’s borderline neglect to not know about them.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, they are actively trying to enslave and kill you, so maybe learn