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[–] [S] 78 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I used to think Orwell was being a bit hyperbolic about the party holding up 4 fingers and demanding people seeing 5.

But Republicans and conservatives do this without even being tortured.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. I hadn't read the book since my early twenties and decided now (at 50) I wanted to take another read through because of all the crap going on, and it's honestly terrifying how press releases and especially Karoline Leavitt sounds straight up newspeak and rewriting the narrative whenever possible.

    It's only a matter of time before they get a department going whose sole job is to go back into historical documents to re-write old news articles to show that they've always been right.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Hitler called it “the Big Lie”, with the idea being that you tell a lie that’s so outrageous that people will find it easier to believe the lie than that you’d have the audacity to tell a lie that outrageous

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