By "truth" I mean to refer to people who are honest and who value, care about, truth and honesty. — tim wood
Is that what I wrote? Try reading. If English is a challenge, get help.By "truth" I mean to refer to people who are honest and who value, care about, truth and honesty.
— tim wood
By "truth" you mean people who care about truth? — Leontiskos
Nope, Truman v. Dewey. Eisenhower v Stevenson the first when I had an opinion. Am I correct to understand your comment as your being unable to tell the difference between, in this case, American presidents?You act as if this is your first election
You're dealing with ingrained human nature, to benefit oneself over that of another. Deception and unscrupulous behavior is a form of survival. — Outlander
By "post-truth" I mean to refer to liars and parasites who neither value nor care bout truth and honesty. — tim wood
From our friend the internet:Us ordinary citizens can't do a lot about that, of course, but the only antidote to lies is truth and the hope that others will heed it. — Wayfarer
Clinton and the atom bomb. It would be nice if you were both better informed and better educated. Clinton fooled around. Not nice, also not uncommon. Can we think of another? But Clinton by most measures was a pretty good president. And the bombs. But even Japanese acknowledge they represented a net savings of many, many lives over invasion. And the US warned the Japanese specifically. But they required to be shown, and even after the bombings, some Japanese militarists were still unwilling to surrender. So none of this is on point, or relevant to any point. Nor can I detect any other point in your post, accept as an apologetics for a sick and dangerous man.What about when the order to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was given? — Outlander
:100: As cynical nihilism, post-truth might even be in a perverted sense a principled stance. But I doubt any of our current American crop of post-truthers is capable of principle - or any other principle than a diseased self-interest. If you can think of any, I'll accept correction.I think the problem is more pernicious and extends beyond liars and parasites. Post-truth is cynical nihilism. — Fooloso4
They refused to accept his lie or to let him off the hook for it. That we need across the board. We should have started with his claims that his first inauguration was "larger" than his predecessor's first. An obvious and absurd lie. — tim wood
Geese cackle. They also attack. I don't know that any individual attack is appropriate. But we may most-of-us be under a positive obligation to cackle, as long and as much and as loud as needed - calling for truth, calling out the lies. — tim wood
But the old saying that if you give them enough rope, they'll hang themselves has not applied. Here, if you give them enough rope, it's us who hang... — Tom Storm
The 10 richest people in the world saw their wealth increase by a record margin just one day after former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, a sign that already wide wealth disparities will likely grow even wider over the next four years due to Trump’s stated economic goals.
According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, those 10 individuals saw their wealth rise by up to $64 billion on Wednesday. That’s the highest daily increase among the 10 wealthiest people in the world ever seen in a single day since Bloomberg started tracking those people’s worth in 2012.
For comparison, the $64 billion figure is equivalent to the annual wages earned by 800,000 American households making the U.S. median income of $80,000 per year. — Truthout
↪tim wood I feel your pain, like half of America and about 90% of Australia, I'm vastly dissappointed by the re-election of DJT — Wayfarer
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