How come the moon doesn’t pull away earth’s atmosphere

Question

If the moon is able to cause rising tides with its gravity, how come it cannot do the same with the atmosphere? Wouldn’t this cause the atmosphere to leak significantly?

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Answer 1

If a big strong person plays a tug of war with a little weak person the rope moves in the direction of the strong person

The earth is the strong person, the moon is the weak person the atmosphere is the rope. The earth pulls harder