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Pretty sure the most direct way to respond to that styled bunk is to tell the poster that they are most welcome to go screw him/herself for all I care. You care not one whit about truth, pre, current, post or otherwise; certainly not how undermining the truth just played out it on a real political stage.The OP was talking about the concept of 'Post Truth politics' in the Philosophical forum section and you have attempted to weave some banal hack Triumpalism that will most likely be short lived for many and a source of apologetics for the hardcore hacks over the next 8 years. I am not looking forward to being bored ****less by that on here for the next 8 years.
Had you bothered to read the linked source, you would have noticed some of the following:
"Media and Politics scholar Jayson Harsin in 2015 coined the term "regime of post-truth" that encompasses many aspects of post-truth politics. He argues that a convergent set of developments have created the conditions of post-truth society: the development of professional political communication informed by cognitive science, which aims at managing perception and belief of segmented populations through techniques like microtargeting (which includes the strategic use of rumors and falsehoods); the fragmentation of modern more centralized mass news media gatekeepers that largely repeated one another's scoops and their reports; the fierce attention economy marked by information overload and acceleration, prolific user-generated content and fewer society-wide common trusted authorities to distinguish between truth and lies, accurate and inaccurate; the algorithms that govern what appears in social media and search engine rankings, sometimes based on what the algorithm thinks users want and not on what is necessarily factual; and news media that has itself been marred by scandals of plagiarism, hoaxes, propaganda, and changing news values, all of which some scholars say issue from economic crises resulting in downsizing and favoring trends toward more traditionally tabloid stories and styles of reporting, known as tabloidization and infotainment.
In 2016, the "post-truth" label was especially widely used to describe the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, including by Brogan Morris writing in Salon,[41] Professor Daniel W. Drezner in The Washington Post,[14] Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian,[13] Chris Cillizza in The Independent,[26] Jeet Heer in The New Republic,[42] and James Kirchick in the Los Angeles Times,[43] and by several professors of government and history at Harvard.[17] Following the 2016 United States presidential election, President Barack Obama stated that the new media ecosystem "means everything is true and nothing is true"
Not like I just brought it up out of nowhere, bro. Besides, we on this side have had to weather 8 years of the windless sails hoisted by the Obama governing untruths... and with that much hot air from so many of the true blowhards, seems those sails should have taken us forward, but they had us sinking instead.
Too many termite holes in the once strong hull of the ship of state, apparently.
Wow, and a comedian to boot. I'll get out the hook instead.You came second, the English won the jackpot.
Exit, stage left. Watch out for the trap doors.