Editing history to escape the truth
Courtesy of 'retcon' and the delete key, the hard truths and inconvenient facts will be cherry-picked to absurd lengths or explained as 'unfortunate glitches'
24 September 2023 - 00:00
A new word, “retcon”, has entered the lexicon, shorthand for “retroactive continuity”...
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