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I could not disagree more.

> Honesty is simply a weakness.

This is not only untrue, but interacting with anyone who really believes it is incredibly dangerous.

If this is the prevailing attitude amongst "reputation management" firms, then I feel pretty safe in assuming anyone engaging these firms or similar tactics are doing so because they're bad actors.

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> This is not only untrue, but interacting with anyone who really believes it is incredibly dangerous.

This opinion literally only exists in a pseudo-intellectual echo chamber such as this one.

Not even close, no. It certainly exists in those echo chambers, but it's also very common in the general population.

Yeah, for real.

the whole "I'm smarter cause I'm jaded" schtick is old as hell. We tried it in the 90s. it was just as dumb then.

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