**** Elections thread *****

[CoccoBill]

Alternative facts á la Spicer/Conway ("largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.") are not a subset of facts, they're just not facts. If the statement had been true, there'd be no need to call them alternative facts, they'd just be facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaugu...ump#Crowd_size

[Poopadoop]

Alternative facts á la Spicer/Conway ("largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.") are not a subset of facts, they're just not facts. If the statement had been true, there'd be no need to call them alternative facts, they'd just be facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaugu...ump#Crowd_size

Agreed. The word 'fact' in that phrase is a misnomer, because the 'alternative facts' aren't facts at all, they're falsehoods.

There's a difference between 1) picking and choosing which facts to present, and 2) making shit up and calling it some kind of 'facts'. The latter is much further down the greasy pole than the former.