• IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Since I had to look it up:

    Since the 2004 election, the term [Swiftboating] has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.

    • Bakkoda
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      4 months ago

      Have to make up innocuous sounding word rather than just say ASSHOLE SAYS SHITTY THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. “Journalists” literally can’t.