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[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

✅ War is peace

☑️ Freedom is slavery

✅ Ignorance is strength

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was subverting an ancient reddit meme where a redditor remembered:

'Knowledge is Power' 'France is Bacon' ,

Where the former quote is by Francis Bacon.

But I do appreciate your correctness <3

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Goddamit—

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Currently reading it. Pretty good so far.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't be like a teenage me and get bored and speed through the parts about language... It may seem dry, but it turns out those were some of his most accurate predictions

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

I read it a few times but I realized there was more to get from it cause I sort of sped read through some (dry) parts the first time. This was back in the mid 2000s when there was less relevant information for us in North America at the time. Nowadays it needs to be brought in for any decent curriculum, though I don't think the fascists would approve that.

Course in the US there's a lot less demanding of education for reasons like this book, you understand what can lead to our current situation and see how harmful it is. Heaven forbid the common folk understand propaganda like they show. Any truly great society would relish in their citizens being well educated and informed of such things to make better progress going forward.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Cool, I won't, thanks for the heads up!

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

In the very beginning there’s a scene where people are watching a war film that seemed eerily reminiscent of the attacks on boats in Venezuela.

[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 44 points 2 days ago

They will invite anyone who is bored of peace

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

Up is down. Down is up.

Ministry of truth. Ministry of peace.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume Putin is getting that $1 billion fee for a permanent spot waived by bff Trump.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not waived, US taxpayers will probably foot the bill...

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Any excuse to charge the company credit card. Extracting money from the federal government for their donors has been the reason for being of politicians, since before we were born.

In all likelihood, barring popular muscular opposition, ha ha, they will bankrupt the country and maxx out our credit before the party loses power. I suspect they de facto default by printing money to pay off debts that waters down the value, a classic in monarchies in europe over the centuries, although they had to lower the percent of precious metal in the currency and the value would immediately reflect that, but the debtors had to eat it.

Never make a deal with the powerful, they are not to be trusted, as an ancient adage tells us.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago

War is Peace.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

Yeah, Putin, Mr. Peace himself.

[–] Smart_Penicillin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 2 days ago

The Onion just can't keep up anymore

[–] Critical_Drinking@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is a servant master dynamic.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

One of these kinds

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

What the fuck.