accidentally posted this in world news before bcs i forgot about the no internal US news rule by accident

  • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    This is the most incoherent thing I’ve ever seen…

    By speaking out, these “totalitarian” protesters are silencing everyone else and challenging representative democracy? And to stop them from silencing others, they must be arrested to prevent them from speaking?

    Dude, this couldn’t have sounded good in your fucking head…

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      7 months ago

      It’s called doublespeak.

      A guy called Orwell wrote a book about Modern Totalitarianism that includes this (prety good book, recommended read).

      It was supposed to be a work of fiction but apparently a lot of politicians are using it as a roadmap.

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        7 months ago

        This is beyond double speak. It doesn’t even need to make sense anymore. As in, like, they don’t even need to form a complete, coherent sentence anymore.

        They don’t need to. They’ve had far more success with the big lie than anyone ever expected, I believe.

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          7 months ago

          double speak and double think didn’t need to make sense. The key to them is accepting directly contradicting statements as equally true as long as the party puts them out. The total ignorance to contradiction is the key.

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            7 months ago

            Right, but in 1984, there was at least a syntax to it that made sense. Double plus ungood makes sense because “ungood” means “bad” and “double plus” means “extra”, etc. There was a logic to it.

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        7 months ago

        He wrote the book under the pseudonym Orwell, but the guy’s name is Blair.