Getting a lot of miles out of this paragraph with the trump regime:
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.
1984
Common dreams should be willing to say “goverment censors” are being brought in to erase history.
Doge was at its heart a censorship program.
Somebody really needs to fucking do it.
Please god please. Or whatever is out there.
Hello you’ve reached the Abyss, how can we hurt you?
By doing nothing at this point.
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Trump rapes little kids.
Please, he’s vetting kids to ensure they align with his interpretation of “too young”
How are you suggesting the Smithsonian depict that?
With the Epstein files, in their entirety. Ideally.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Excuse me, I think you meant the Trump/Epstein files
They’ve already redacted Trumps name from the files.
The files ARE the distraction
And make a Smithsonian exhibit out of them while we’re at it!
We need a comic depiction of Trump’s interpretation of history. That’d be…fascinating.
Trump Tracts
History started when the British dive bombed Pearl Harbor and illegally landed their jets at JFK International Airport in 1776, obviously.
The US air force fought back with their invisible fighter jets.
Trump Jong-Don is really in full swing, eh.
정돈 ㅋㅋ sounds like a proper pig.
It really does feel like Trump is the little boy in the It’s a Good Life episode of The Twilight Zone with how eager everyone is to gargle his balls. It’s infuriating.
Send em to the cornfield.
To be with his people.
If the Smithsonian complies, they can forget me ever purchasing one of their learning kits ever again.
In a way they already have:
“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., has removed references to President Donald Trump in a display about impeachments, despite Trump being the first and only president in American history to be impeached twice.”
Maybe pay more attention to the news.
“A more permanent display about the president has since been added, as have artifacts from the proceedings. Some text was changed between displays, specifically concerning Trump’s involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and accusations of election interference.”
First thing, change the sign up front to “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” so people will know they’re going to see a mix of facts with some crazy make-believe bullshit.
Fuck this country. There’s nothing here worth fighting for anymore.
Who cares. The Smithsonian already lost all its credibility when they sucked Trump’s dick regarding the impeachment display.
You mean the impeachment display that was added back with more detail?
“more” detail? You mean “modified” detail?
"The word “alleged” was added to the text about Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial, changing the sentence, “The charges focused on the president’s solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election…” to, “The charges focused on the president’s alleged solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election and defiance of Congressional subpoenas. Trump was acquitted in January 2020.”
More significant changes were made to the description of the second 2021 impeachment. Specifically, the phrases “repeated ‘false statements’” and “‘encouraged ‒ and foreseeably resulted in ‒ imminent lawless action at the Capitol’” were removed when discussing Trump’s involvement in Jan. 6."
They changed the display to make daddy trump happy.
Iin case you missed it, this is the how much spine the Smithsonian has:
Fuck the Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian is not a business, and gets over 60% their funds from the govt.
I don’t give a fuck. They’re cowards and bootlickers if they change displays because it hurts somebody’s feelings.
So?
The Smithsonian has to follow orders, even if they don’t want to because it would mean cutting their funding or ending up freezing it.
There should be an amendment that protects the Smithsonian from this without the risk of having its funds frozen.
I thought we decided no one “has to” follow orders in 1945.
Refuse and make them drag you out screaming. Throw a shit fit. Stand up for something for once in your fucking lives, it’s not that hard. I had some dude claiming to be with ice asking for one of my students, I told him to go talk to the campus police. Did I get fired? No. Was I dragged away? Also no. Having more than a toothpick for a spine isn’t that hard.
The Smithsonian has to follow orders, even if they don’t want to because it would mean cutting their funding or ending up freezing it.
As a museum, if they’re more willing to “follow orders” than they are to present actual fact, they fucking deserve to have every penny of their funding cut.
much like all the lawfirms and university like columbia that bent the knee to him.
We are FAR past the point that “just following orders” is a valid excuse.
thats what the soldiers of the nazis said.
The fact that so many people here (a generally left leaning space) are still trying to use it as an excuse says so much about the state of our education system.
Finally, the Air Force will finally get the attention it deserves at the American Revolution exhibit.
You mean the War of Rights exhibit?
What’s the long-game, man?
Like, he dies and we just mop up Trump’s bullshit with the new guy’s bullshit?
Wait, that’s literally how history works.
