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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by mwfunk on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:24PM (#19749706)
"Fake it till you make it" means, sound like you're way more confident about what you're saying than you actually are, until you become the sort of person you're presenting yourself as. It's not people making up random shit, it's people making up totally plausible sounding shit.
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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by bradjohnson on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:03PM (#19750163)
If the ones that are buying that shit don't know enough about how it works, it's not that difficult for a bullshitter to make the implausible sound plausible.
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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by crankylinuxuser on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:41PM (#19753871)
"Fake it tll you make it" was also a saying to counteract the impostor syndrome telling themselves that 'theyre worthless, cant do anything, know nothing, etc'

Bullshitters never really followed this. It's the Trump game. Keep talking, making stuff up, while moving faster in the direction you want. And it's too hard to keep up, so implicitly people believe portions of it.

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