It really is remarkable how bad politicians' memories are. Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.
He forgot about using a pseudonym and having a side business when asked too.
[0] course he should've known, the photo is framed in a way that only works with the missing PM, and is a bad enough photoshop job that I can still see BJ's elbow.
There's no cost to this, because tomorrow the media and your supporters will forget everything as well. Unless the media really want to use it against you.
Saying "this is just like what emperor Flavius did!" causes a lot less outrage than saying "this is just like what Stalin did!", even though they are both true. This is why, unless a phenomenon was exclusive to a certain ideology, I feel like constantly mentioning nazis and commies is just a rethorical tool
Although I suppose we could also say "just like Vogue!" (or whichever fashion magazine is most guilty of photoshopping people).
Someone make it stop.
Please.
(People are missing the subtle humour of this post.)
Trotsky was indeed deleted from a couple of pics, but they are much more obscure.
(From https://11points.com/11-famous-doctored-photos-dictators/)
Perhaps I'm misremembering after all and it was always Mao instead of Stalin.
Which has been done since forever. People in the past didn't erase others only after they were long gone. Someone could quickly fall out of favor and have many of his depiction and documents already altered in a single year.
It's bad that he got deleted from the photo, but that's not indicative of any particular 20th century dictatorship
Hitler did do that, but it's not the most notable thing that he did.
And if your argument that dictatorships outside the 20th century did it too, that still doesn't mean it's not something associated primarily with dictatorships. Can you name a modern democracy where people were erased like that?
Still, the majority of examples, and the most famous ones, are Stalin, followed by various other dictatorships. But this example is apparently not a first for the UK.
