Each of the following individual words is true
but I take no responsibility for the factuality of their combinations.
Donald Trump
The only truth left to us is in words. It is when we combine them together that the lies find their way in.
Although each meaning of every individual word is subject to change.
Look at the word ‘gay’.
First it meant happy, then ‘gay’ was used as a slur by some people.
Has the world changed enough that it also means happy again?
Gay pride, is a global event. Nothing unhappy about that.
(Although don’t look too deeply into the subject!)
There is still vast amounts of prejudice in the world, over many subjects.
If we reclaim the word ‘gay’ to be happy, are the days of disparagement for this word drawing to a close?
I would say that it definitely means happy again.
People are happy to be gay. To be able to live a life of freedom to be themselves.
Even if they are sometimes denied cake.
If you remember the story of the bakery who refused to make a cake for a gay couple.
Factuality and fake news
The genius of the phrase ‘fake news’ is that everyone knows there is a truth to it.
Have you ever considered that people want fake news?
Do they really want to hear the truth about themselves or the society they live in?
At some level people want to be happy.
The only way to do it is to turn off the abject horror of everyday life.
Unless, of course, you’re a lover of schadenfreude.
Then this is the world for you.
The rebel fish 
Agreed. Take the term president for example. That certainly doesn’t mean what it used to…
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People used to confuse it with precedent, no longer it’s more obvious
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There are too many people that find joy in the unhappiness of others. 😦
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For the record, I don’t but I’m in the habit of writing things I didn’t do or think as well as those I didn’t. I really didn’t have a job selling front doors for rabbits…
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You gaily wrote this post.
I gaily read it (you haven’t seen my shirt!)
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No doubt speaking Gaelic… eating garlic
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Somewhere there, is a joke about a man weeing on the carpet…………..onomatopoeia.
Although what that has to do with the price of bread is anyone’s guess.
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Perfect
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Not for me. I had to clean up!
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Hah 🙂
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Alt facts, fake news, lies, damned lies, and statistics. So many ways to say not quite the truth. Truth is in the ears of the cupholders.
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I think it works as mostly people don’t want the truth, as Jackk Nicholson said in some movie…
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I think he said we couldn’t handle the truth. Modern politics is proving him right.
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