• stumpelrilzchen@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    They’re not lies - they’re “alternative facts”.

    In that same vein,

    • illegal wars of aggression are “special milliary operations”
    • people the U.S. does not want to grant POW status are “irregular combatants” (a term used for people locked up for decades in Guantanamo Gulag)
    • extrajudicial killings (e.g. via drone strikes) are “liquidations” or targets being “neutralised”.
    • torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”.

    I wish I were making this shit up, but most of this vocabulary is from the Bush era. That goes to ahow: while there are certain differences in both quality and quantity, blatant lies to the public have always been a hallmark of (U.S.) governments.