We could give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, instead, by nationalizing it, while also sending this person to jail forever for his unprecedented crimes, constitutional violations, & treasonous disruption of national security policy.

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I've seen people with intellectual disabilities fake medical conditions well enough to fool medical providers where part of the success of the con is a provider incorrectly thinking no one with their limitations could fake a condition so consisently - bigotry of low expectations stuff.

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You don't need to carefully script deception to get into character to deceive people. I've seen people with pretty significant intellectual limitations be in character for extended stretches I know is flat out dishonest, and I don't think they were *scripting* it.

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There’s no doubt Holmes is a liar, but the question lurking behind You Can See Everything is “is she so good at it that every interaction, every apparent emotion, is carefully scripted to deceive” and frankly, I do not recall and could not imagine anyone asking this about a male fraudster like Musk.

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Do we think Elon Musk is the world’s greatest deceiver because he convinced millions of people he’d have flying cars on Mars by 2025? And surely he’s been more successful than Holmes, who is in prison. So why do we assume the latter is anything but the female version of the clumsy hype man con?

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