"Post-truth" year

[frigidweirdo]

'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' and 'alt-right' as word of year

Apparently the Brits have decided (well a dictionary decided, but we'll only find this out later) that "post-truth" is the word of the year.

After Brexit in the UK and now Trump in the US, it seems to be apt.

Elections have become massive promise bowls, and the reality afterwards comes the truth. We don't seem to like the truth any more, it gets in the way of feeling smug about ourselves.

 

[Grandma]

@Mods - please pin this post, it's the most intelligent thing said on USMB all year.

 

[whitehall]

Who woulda thunk the smarmy Brits would ignore their own country's cry for independence from the Euro market and meddle in American politics? Now from the country that used to award Knighthood to heroes and now awards the distinction to homosexual piano players. The Oxford geeks invent a "word of the year" that nobody but freaking idiots care about and they pretend that they know something about American politics. The British elites are among the most insufferable drones in the freaking free world.

 

[Correll]

'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' and 'alt-right' as word of year

Apparently the Brits have decided (well a dictionary decided, but we'll only find this out later) that "post-truth" is the word of the year.

After Brexit in the UK and now Trump in the US, it seems to be apt.

Elections have become massive promise bowls, and the reality afterwards comes the truth. We don't seem to like the truth any more, it gets in the way of feeling smug about ourselves.

Right.

Because any resistance to the agenda of the international left has to be explained away and marginalized.


It could NEVER be that perhaps some good people had some real interests that they wanted addressed by their nations policies..



Liberals: All the self awareness of a turnip.

 

[frigidweirdo]

'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' and 'alt-right' as word of year

Apparently the Brits have decided (well a dictionary decided, but we'll only find this out later) that "post-truth" is the word of the year.

After Brexit in the UK and now Trump in the US, it seems to be apt.

Elections have become massive promise bowls, and the reality afterwards comes the truth. We don't seem to like the truth any more, it gets in the way of feeling smug about ourselves.

Right.

Because any resistance to the agenda of the international left has to be explained away and marginalized.


It could NEVER be that perhaps some good people had some real interests that they wanted addressed by their nations policies..



Liberals: All the self awareness of a turnip.

Oh come on.

The Brexit campaign.

They basically said they'd spend this money they'd "save" on the NHS.

Firstly the govt in charge wants to get rid of the NHS and is taking away the money (govt in charge = Tories, most people in favor of leaving = Tories).

Secondly, the country has lost more than 350 million pounds a day from the pound dropping, and will lose more from a reduction in trade once it leaves.

The argument is one that doesn't make sense in the first place.

Trump and his "wall", which, well, which was never going to be a wall, look at Israeli's wall, which is on a border 1/10th the size of the US's border and their "wall" is only 10% wall, and that's to stop snipers.

Where, in all of this, is there opposition from the elite?

This isn't about the elite, this is about people making up bullshit.

I'm engaged in a topic about changing the way people vote, PR for the House, popular vote for President, and all these people who come out with arguments like yours, all of a sudden want to KEEP the system that keeps the elite's power going.

How can the contraction keep going?

 

[Avatar4321]

How can anyone who supported Hillary Clinton pretend to care about the truth? If you cared about the truth you wouldn't have voted for one of the most dishonest politicians in American history. You wouldn't be supporting a party that denies that truth even exists.