• Cort@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t know when the goal post got moved

    January 22nd 2017. When Kellyanne Conway used the term “alternative facts”

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      1 month ago

      Alternative facts, alternative liftoff, alternative attack, alternative growth, alternative survival

      (It’s just a joke in Russia about state media using the word “negative” instead of alternative is similar cases to describe things falling apart)

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      I would say after ww2 after modern propaganda tactics went main stream across the world.

      But it didn’t happen over night, it was a process to get us here.