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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984 , p. 103 The warning signs of the threat the 77-year-old, ...
by TheseusInWisconsin
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Could the 2024 CPAC conference be even more toxic, paranoid, hateful and undermining of the actual values of our nation’s Founders? I don’t think so. An Alabama judge who is happy to appear on a QAnon nutcase’s show has abandoned any pretense of...
by HJCV
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 05:57 AM PST
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dgh A new world in 9 diagonal inches The Mac turns 40 today. I’ve used 5 Macs in my life ...
by jck
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 05:30 PM PST
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"The Ugly American," published in 1958, refers to the negative image of Americans abroad who are culturally insensitive, arrogant, and fail to understand local customs and traditions. The novel highlights the detrimental impact of such behavior on U.S....
by Cogitator44
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 06:05 AM PST
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The forced-birth, book-banning, pro-insurrectionist wing of the GOP—which has become so dominant that the party spins around in circles like a dyspeptic chicken whenever it tries to elect a speaker—has spread its noxious extremism across the country...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
113 comments
on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 01:18 PM PDT
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older but wise
So, voters questioned in a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll say that Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term. I am sure Joe Biden might agree ...
by vjr7121
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on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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First things first: Anyone of you reading this, who is a mother, assuming you have done, or are doing, a reasonably good job as a mother, since that job is such a great challenge, for anyone: You are a Superhero Mom! Uncle Mark said so! (My name is...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Sun May 14, 2023 at 09:52 AM PDT
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DeSanitied managed to include at least two minutes of hate in his 2023 “us vs. them” inaugural speech.
by HJCV
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 08:43 AM PST
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As many of you know, I have been struggling with Post-Covid syndrome and a number of other ailments that have put me out of work. I have diaried about it numerous times over the past couple of months: Here is the beginning of the saga My struggles with...
by rexymeteorite
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on Fri Nov 18, 2022 at 01:15 PM PST
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I don’t usually write short diaries. I promise to, but can’t seem to keep those promises most of the time. Asperger’s, probably. I tend to LIVE in the weeds and I know all their names… not their Latin ones. I mean George, and Sally, and Tom… Anyway,...
by Gaelsdottir
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on Tue Oct 25, 2022 at 09:21 AM PDT
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I hate it when right wing, PSYOPS, propagandists successfully contaminate beautiful words with specially designed malice. It reminds me of George Orwell's, 1984 where love means hate and peace means war. Take the word “Grooming.” It’s a beautiful word...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Thu Aug 04, 2022 at 07:02 PM PDT
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George Orwell’s warning for the future was published 76 years ago today .
George Orwell 's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a dystopian future Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One,
by jck
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on Wed Jun 08, 2022 at 05:30 PM PDT
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And I know that is always Trouble (with a capital “T”) as my dear departed pappy would tell me. However, I can’t help but wonder why? Why did The Supreme Court suddenly decide to ‘Pull Roe v Wade’ at this time? Why did they use the idea that something...
by PadreMellyrn
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on Thu Jun 09, 2022 at 12:44 PM PDT
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The entire Republican brand has been built on a wobbly foundation of vile lies and exaggerations. It has to be. How else do you convince people that cruelly suppressing flows of immigrants to a country that faces both short- and long-term labor...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
185 comments
on Fri Apr 29, 2022 at 11:40 AM PDT
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Last week, Russia’s Education Ministry provided schoolteachers with “information for a social studies session.” ‘Disinformation’ would be more accurate. The ‘information’ starts by saying, “Russia does not like to wage wars, create conflicts and...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Mar 07, 2022 at 09:50 AM PST
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The president of the Iowa Senate said this week said that teachers and other school employees who give "obscene" material to students should be criminally prosecuted, adding that he was drafting legislation that would make it a felony to do so. Iowa...
by Witgren
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on Sat Nov 20, 2021 at 05:43 PM PST
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Might seem like a rather mundane and harmless error to some of us, but it’s an example of how Facebook and probably other corporate entities are operating these days. The idea of using computers and algorithms to arbitrate and judge community standards...
by psychusa
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on Wed Oct 20, 2021 at 07:35 AM PDT
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The Mars (PA) School District amended its home page to proclaim, “quality education should promote students to be informed, engaged, and patriotic citizens.” And then they passed the “Patriot Amendment” — which is the antithesis of “informed”. This...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Aug 21, 2021 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a...
by PadreMellyrn
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on Tue Apr 13, 2021 at 08:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump Sr is banned from Twitter for life. Little junior still has his account and responded with the following: He is absolutely correct. I just need to clarify the “We.” “We” refers exclusively to MAGA Trumpite crowds and...
by bumper monster
24 comments
on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 08:37 PM PST
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- A series of witnesses testified today as the prosecution is beginning to wind up its case against Trump. Perhaps most damaging was a Trump tweet which proved an opening statement claim made to the jury by his attorney to be a lie. Here are today’s...9 comments 33 Recs
- UPDATE: Friday, May 10, 2024 · 2:15:25 PM +00:00 · distraught Over 2 months ago, Biden nominated someone to fill 1 of 2 vacancies on the Postal Board. Walsh would be the fourth Democrat to sit on the board, joining three Republicans and one...196 comments 310 Recs
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