relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less important in shaping public opinion than emotional or personal beliefs.
Post-truth relies solely on personal beliefs and ignores any facts that may conflict with those personal beliefs.
by P-but November 16, 2016
Get the post-truth mug.circumstances in which the truth is no longer reliably known or figured out (due to conflicting sources and the sheer amount of nonsense in the world, for example), and thus debates are often about which "facts" are actually true instead of what they mean or how to put them together.
A prime example of post-truth politics is voter fraud: conservatives and liberals don't debate about how to solve or prevent it, but whether or not it even exists in the first place.
by AdmiralAwesomeness November 21, 2016
Get the post-truth mug.Post truth is where public opinion is shaped more-so by opinion and emotion rather than objective facts. This seems to be a new term, in relation to the whole Trump thing. People act as if public opinion has never been shaped by opinion until now. Welcome to the hell we have all been living until you leftists had your fantasy land bubble popped!
Can we start advocating for inherent rights instead of using government as a weapon against our enemies? Can we think outside of just one issue, and realize if we want freedom in one area we must also support the freedoms of others because why the fuck would someone support your freedom if you don't support theirs? The answer? VOLUNTARYISM.
Can we start advocating for inherent rights instead of using government as a weapon against our enemies? Can we think outside of just one issue, and realize if we want freedom in one area we must also support the freedoms of others because why the fuck would someone support your freedom if you don't support theirs? The answer? VOLUNTARYISM.
"These people against Trump act as if this is the first time government might become corrupt. Reality can be a bitch. Now research:Voluntarism, Mark Passio Natural Law seminar, Larken rose. Read and research all of that shit, and you'll see the post-truth has been around a long time, this is the Apocalypse FACTUALLY."
by "MARK PASSIO NATURAL LAW" November 21, 2016
Get the post-truth mug.A politically correct phrase for “fake news” or “alternative facts”—a hypocrite’s or Pharisee’s word for “bullshit.”
Thanks to their Bullshitter-in-Chief, most morally bankrupt GOP members have been lying comatose on their bed of post truths even before the pandemic struck.
by Fasters May 20, 2022
Get the Post Truth mug.Also known as “Fake Math,” “Trump Math,” “Bigly Math,” and “BS Math.” Half-lies and conspiracies about or on math and math education, which look superficially or uncritically fun, but they are conceptually dangerous to most semi-innumerates and non-symbol-minded folks.
Millions of MAGA patriots have been brainwashed or radicalized to believe post truth math without questions, which has indirectly led to the banning of some math titles or classics in some puritan circles.
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Get the Post Truth Math mug.The recognition that "post-truth" is not simply a descent into falsehood but a transformation of how truth functions—a shift from truth as correspondence to truth as performance, truth as identity, truth as weapon. Valid Post-Truth argues that the old regime of truth (objective, universal, authoritative) has eroded, and a new regime has emerged where truth claims are judged not by their correspondence to reality but by their effects, their alignment with identity, their viral potential. This is not the end of truth but its mutation—truth becomes something else, something we don't yet fully understand. Valid Post-Truth is the attempt to understand this mutation without simply lamenting it.
Example: "He'd spent years lamenting the death of truth, the rise of lies, the end of reason. Valid Post-Truth showed him a different picture: truth hadn't died; it had transformed. Now truth was what went viral, what felt right, what performed identity. He didn't have to like it, but he had to understand it. The old truth wasn't coming back; a new truth was here."
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Get the Valid Post-Truth mug.The systematic elaboration of valid post-truth as a framework for understanding contemporary epistemology. The Theory of Valid Post-Truth argues that we are witnessing not the death of truth but its mutation—a shift from truth-as-correspondence to truth-as-performance, truth-as-identity, truth-as-weapon. It traces the conditions that produced this shift: the collapse of trusted institutions, the rise of social media, the weaponization of information, the fragmentation of publics. It doesn't celebrate this shift or lament it; it seeks to understand it, to map its contours, to navigate its terrain. The Theory of Valid Post-Truth is the attempt to think clearly about a world where truth is no longer what it was.
Example: "He'd been searching for a way to understand the new information landscape—the lies that felt true, the facts that convinced no one. The Theory of Valid Post-Truth gave him language: truth had mutated, shifted from correspondence to performance. He stopped trying to fight the old war and started learning to navigate the new terrain."
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