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#georgeorwell

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

*👉Verfassungskrise in den USA..Zukunft auch in Deutschland?👈*

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..Realität, sondern ein soziales Konstrukt ist', eine in der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft weit verbreitete Position."1)

Leider verwendet #Blight im Titel das falsche Modalverb, richtiger müsste es wohl heißen,

"Trump *darf keinesfalls* seinen Krieg gegen die Geschichte nicht gewinnen! "

Denn, wie alle, die sich einmal mit #DeutscherGeschichte oder #GeorgeOrwell beschäftigt haben,

"Wer die Vergangenheit kontrolliert...

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Richard Rathe

Deception, Obfuscation & Misdirection

This is a concatenation of posts I originally made in 2016-2017--even more relevant today...

Most are familiar with the concept of #FUD—short for #Fear, #Uncertainty & #Doubt. It summarizes a strategy often used in marketing and political propaganda. Its effects are pernicious, divisive and lead to exploitation. Examples abound. Fear is a strong motivator! To resist FUD one must understand how it is practiced using the principles of #Deception, #Obfuscation and #Misdirection.

mdpaths.com/rrr/commentary/dec

Bullshit Meter in the Red
#Lies#Liars#TrumpLies
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Pete🎸🎶🐍📽🎞☮🌍🙂😭

Lying awake my wandering mind associated the #Communist newspaper of the #USSR named #Pravda, which commonly translates as #Truth, with the #neoFascist in the Whitehouse naming his media platform Truth.

It's interesting how the principles and values play out in reality.

"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening" - #Trump (2018)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - #GeorgeOrwell, #1984 (1949)

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Daniele de Rigo

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@brewsterkahle interview (noted by @remixtures tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/1)

kqed.org/news/12031980/what-ha

"The bigger picture [...] and the real contest is not about money, it’s actually about control. Can #libraries own anything in the digital world? Is there digital ownership?" [...] " The average life of a web page is 100 days before it’s changed or deleted. If we do not actively collect them and preserve them and keep them accessible, we’re living in the memory [hole] universe of #GeorgeOrwell"

tldr.nettimeMiguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)"For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideologically-driven purge of government websites. But the Archive itself faces an existential threat. In this episode, Close All Tabs Senior Editor Chris Egusa joins Morgan to discuss his visit to the Internet Archive and its colorful founder Brewster Kahle, the legal battles that could shut it down permanently — and what losing it might mean for accountability and the preservation of history." https://www.kqed.org/news/12031980/what-happens-if-the-internet-archive-goes-dark #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #DigitalArchiving
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@Nonilex

👉The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople👈

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... dumber the people, the more easily they can be controlled, as #Reagan and #GeorgeOrwell
discovered decades ago.

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1)
Dumbing of America:
salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-w

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👉*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"👈
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1097

3) If you like a good, high-school senior level of the Alignment of German society in the 1930's, I recommend this:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1139

#Reagan #Trump

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Salon.com · How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond
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jak from far away

"1984" von George Orwell - Widerstand ist zwecklos

ardaudiothek.de/sendung/1984-v

ARD Audiothek"1984" von George Orwell - Widerstand ist zwecklos"Krieg ist Frieden. Freiheit ist Sklaverei. Unwissenheit ist Stärke" - so lautet die Parole der einzigen Partei in Orwells dystopischen Roman von 1948. Die Geschichte von Winston Smith im Überwachungsstaat Ozeanien gehört zu den meistgelesenen Werken des 20. Jahrhunderts, allein der Titel ist zum Signalwort geworden. Denn es ist ein Buch, das als Barometer der Gegenwart funktioniert: Wie steht's um unseren Staat, unsere Welt heute im Vergleich zu Ozeanien? Im Zeitalter von Fake News, Wahlmanipulation und Datendiebstahl? Winston Smith, die Hauptfigur von "1984", beginnt schreibend eine hoffnungslose Rebellion. Der mehrfach preisgekrönte Erzähler Christian Brückner (u.a. Robert de Niros Synchronstimme) liest Orwells Sci-Fi-Klassiker in vier Folgen.
#GeorgeOrwell#ARD#Hörspiel
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Calishat

#fascism #VideoGames #GeorgeOrwell #1984

'After appearing as a demo at E3 1998 and receiving some scattered press coverage, the Big Brother project fell apart before the game could see a full release. Now, though, you can experience a small taste of this ill-fated literary sequel thanks to a newly unearthed demo that was recovered and posted to the Internet Archive over the weekend.'

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03

Ars Technica · George Orwell’s 1984 as a ‘90s PC game has to be seen to be believedBy Kyle Orland
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