If anything would disprove George Orwell's idea of Newspeak being an effective tool to prevent ideas from being expressed, it is the people on youtube using every annoying term to get around demonetization.
I find it annoying when I hear the term "unaliving" instead of suicide. Everyone knows what they mean, it just makes you have to jump through more hoops while everyone knows the real word they mean.
Annoying as it is, I am fine with less parts of 1984 being able to happen.
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@goatmeal the crypto where they meddled with and reversed transactions?
The one that moved to proof of stake?
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Oh dear, activists cut either power or telecommunications to JP Morgan, Allianz and Barclays on Monday.
Still, those companies are key players in the $7,900,000,000,000 invested in the fossil fuel industry so Shut The System are justified in doing it.
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I'm with the woman in green here.
And if a candidate is progressive you do not want them on a national Democrat ticket. They will get clobbered. Run them on congressional seat tickets where they have a chance of winning and doing some real good. AOC is a great example. Stop talking about her as a national ticket possibility. The only way she would have a chance there is if she changed significantly in ways we would dislike. I hope she stays where she is and continues as she is doing.
And besides, the Democrats do in fact work for many progressive measures that are vehemently opposed by the Republicans. There actually is a huge divide between the efforts of the two major parties.
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The administration passed major legislative initiatives, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a $1.2 trillion investment in transportation, clean water, high-speed internet, and clean energy.
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The Respect for Marriage Act was enacted to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, and President Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
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in reply to houseoftolstoy • • •Newsspeak would eliminate jargon with alternative meanings until eventually only one word exists which is similar to the sound when a duck quacks
Repeating the same word out loud like a mantra would block other words from being verbally thought in the mind
Duck speak claim is shared in both George Orwell's 1984 & also Snapping Americas Epidemic of Personality Change by Conway and Flo if I remember the book title and author correctly but it is called Transcendental Meditation