If it were real facts we’d just call them facts.
If it were real medicine we’d just call it medicine.
If it were real news we’d just call it news.
I’m not saying this rule always works, just sometimes.
Has anybody ever actually unironically said “alternative facts”?
Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.
Seems like a decade ago and a month ago at the same time.
I think Tim Minchin, in his prime coined the saying: Alternative medicine is either:
- Medicine that has not been proven to work Or
- Medicine that has been proven not to work You know what they call alternative medicine that’s proven to work? “Medicine”
Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
We need to find an bullshit to fossil fuels and plastic bags. You can’t just ignore these problems, and listen to bullshit rock all day long.
Yep, that works perfectly.
Sometimes the word alternate should be replaced with the word bullshit
Control bullshit delete
You’re right.
Also, add the word ‘faith’ to that list.
Well, to me it means “alternative to”, so you can either have medicine or the alternative (to medicine). Alternative to facts is bullshit, so that checks out.
“Let me switch to my bullshit account for that”
Yup, I’m sold
Bullshit für Deutschland
yup it works
Is that the name of a political party?
It is, it’s the far right party in Germany, with many of its members carrying sentences for incitement for racial hatred and public use of nazi quotes/symbols/gestures.
They currently have ~20% of the electorate on their side, and there’s an ongoing procedure to declare them illegal (as measures against the emergence of nationalistic movements were enshrined in the constitution post WW2)
Similar things could be said about things like “real” and “official.”
Also the one I hate the most, Genuine®. That literally means it’s fake.
you had to take a shower to come up with this?
