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.
You’re right.
Also, add the word ‘faith’ to that list.
Are you calling Faith No More “bullshit metal” ? 😮
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.
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
Alternative Right. Yup. That works.
Alternative energy sources. Hmm. Maybe not everything.
“Let me switch to my bullshit account for that”
Yup, I’m sold
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”
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Came here to make the Minchin comparison.
Tbf the wording in OP’s post suggests it might be intentional.
Side note, anyone who doesn’t get the reference, here’s an animated version of Tim Minchin’s beat poem Storm. It’s only about 11 minutes long and very entertaining, especially for anyone who appreciates a scientific approach to the unknown. It’s been around for a while but seems more poignant today than ever.
Always worth watching again.
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)
Yeah the German far right one
Yeah a German far right one.
FTFY. Cause you know there was that other far right German party.
Control bullshit delete
me and my doppelganger
“Shoot him! I’m the real Kolanaki!”
Gets shot
“How did you know?”
“If they were the real Kolanaki, they would have just said Kolanaki.”
Totally agree
“OK LOOK for the last time I am not Alternativating you!!!”
Alternative rock is fine.
In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’ (though we still have the bullshit meaning of ‘alternative facts’, ‘alternative medicine’). Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.
That’s a good point about alternative rock. I changed the title from usually to sometimes, maybe usually was too much.
I’ve never thought about the word alternative being synonymous with progressive, I tend of think of as meaning against the grain or against the mainstream but in practice sometimes it just means bullshit like in the title. For example RT calls themselves “alternative media” but they’re really just propaganda slop.
I think there has been a certain amount of cultural change in the rightwing - used to be they just considered themselves the status quo upholders, the ones who were subversive were hippies, educated-but-not-rich city-dwellers, artists etc… Now that more progressive forces became somewhat mainstream, major parts of the rightwing have adopted a more subversive identity and messaging.
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.
