#Orwell

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OATMlLKLATTE

Good morning, this is gonna be long but here’s why you have to stop using Camden, NJ as an example of police being defunded. I found it on IG at

etymologic

etymologic

Fess-hole: I've recorded about 30 hours of teaching this semester, yet I've never watched *any* teaching video on *any* subject for more than about 30 seconds. apart from the times

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) Let's just cut the bullshit and get to the heart of the Trump ban: If there's anything "Orwellian" about all of this, it's the right re-framing the for-profit, privately-controlled

Frances Leader

2013Boodicca

What does #totalitarianism really look like?Most people will think of the USSR, Nazi Germany or North Korea. The kind of brutal regimes that inspired George Orwell's ‘1984’. But another novel,

Chance Durant, Author of Construct

chancedurant1

1984: A book about dystopian government leaders who normalize misinformation using "alternative facts," lying constantly until the populace just accepts their nonsense and follows their lead blindly, ignoring all evidence#1984IsHe

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

1. Ali Alexander, who is the leader of "Stop The Steal" and one of the organizers of the insurrection, has had his Twitter account permanently suspended. Alexander said yesterday that

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

This is what pisses me off about the constant bad faith victimhood crap people on the right do:1. They wildly misrepresent something innocuous (no, Pelosi did not “ban” anything).2. They

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

The US is worse by the numbers and yet the US is the UK's faultLike, what the US is is the UK's colonists sent to do their dirty work they

Travis Kavulla

TKavulla

We're live. Comments on "culture of this Commission, which I fully intend to take to FERC." -- Christie spells out a few aspects of that culture where he's served for

justdad7

justdad7

The response to the @canlawmag article on preferred gender pronouns does not reflect well on Canadian lawyers. Most of the responses were just generic accusations of transphobia but there were

Gigi ⏳☯️

dergigi

Dear legislators:* a wallet is a collection of private keys* private keys are just informationDo you realize what outlawing information would entail? Information can be represented in all kinds of

Celeste Headlee

CelesteHeadlee

FYI - "Whataboutism" is rhetorical device to deflect attention from an allegation by bringing up some other issue, never responding to the original charge. "You're a liar!""You ate my French

Tom London

TomLondon6

BEWARE "doublethink"In 1984 George Orwell defines "doublethink":To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, 1/? to hold simultaneously two opinions which

Kyle Becker

kylenabecker

If America is to survive as a constitutional republic there must be a shared understanding of basic norms such as civility, decency & fairness.The widespread belief that government can make

Jonny Geller

JonnyGeller

As it’s January, a short thread for new writers on coping with literary rejection:1)Rejection is hardwired into the creative process. It is, regretfully, an essential component of it. A writer

Luca Dellanna

DellAnnaLuca

QUOTES FROM ORWELL'S 1984 REWRITTEN TO MATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MARKETS“But if money corrupts people, people can also corrupt money.”(thread, 1/N) “Every company has been bailed out, every junk

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