[watwut]

> You gain people's trust by being consistently worthy of trust.

People trust repeated liers all the time. And truth telling institutions are rarely most trusted popular ones.

[MattGaiser]

Indeed. It seems like the path to getting a lot of people to trust you is to tell lies so big that many can't believe someone would come up with a lie like that.

[Rerarom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

[laurent92]

Whenever people complain about the state of their society, I can’t help but think they still really desire the current situation.