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billvon

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Partial list of words that the Trump adminstration must be avoided in any government communication:

accessible
advocate
antiracist
barrier
belong
bias
DEI
disability
equality
female
gender
hate speech
immigrants
inequality
mental health
oppression
political
pollution
pronoun
race
racism
segregation
status
trauma
victim
women


"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller." - 1984

"Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” - 1984

"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible." - 1984
 
billvon said:
Partial list of words that the Trump adminstration must be avoided in any government communication:

accessible
advocate
antiracist
barrier
belong
bias
DEI
disability
equality
female
gender
hate speech
immigrants
inequality
mental health
oppression
political
pollution
pronoun
race
racism
segregation
status
trauma
victim
women


"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller." - 1984

"Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?” - 1984

"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible." - 1984
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Where does this list come from? Is it a joke?
 
exchemist said:
Where does this list come from? Is it a joke?
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www.nytimes.com

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

or https://archive.is/wJUd3 (some kind of a paywall)

I just copied a chunk of those words ,pasted them into the address field of my browser and NYT's article came up in the search list.

There is a comments section in the NYT article.Some (obviously) support this and think it is a temporary correction for out of control liberaldom.

Someone else suggested trying to "break the internet" by using the terms to the limit.(a denial of servility attack ,as it were)
 
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Sarkus said:
This details how the administration is more 1984 than just the banning of words from government comms.
www.inquirer.com

Orwell’s ‘1984’ dystopia is happening now | Opinion

As members of the Trump administration adopt a form of “newspeak” to deny both history and reality, DOGE watches us as it hacks into personal government-stored data.
www.inquirer.com www.inquirer.com
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Can't read the link because of my ad blocker, but the parallel of Trump's vision of the world with Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia is obvious. Which means he sees Europe as being in Putin's sphere of influence:eek:. But does he see Britain as Airstrip One or part of Eurasia, I wonder.
 
billvon said:
Yep. That is why the US military is deleting pictures of the Enola Gay.
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Crazy, he hates gays that much he is even removing the word or trying.
Reminds me of the phrase, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much."
I hang onto the possibility that someone, somewhere is in possession of a photo of a drunken 19 year old Trump, dressed in ladies underwear, leaving the Blue Oyster bar with his Hispanic boyfriend.
One has to dream.
 
Pinball1970 said:
I hang onto the possibility that someone, somewhere is in possession of a photo of a drunken 19 year old Trump, dressed in ladies underwear, leaving the Blue Oyster bar with his Hispanic boyfriend.
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Dude, he raped a woman and committed 34 felonies. You think a picture like that would even move the needle? And he'd just claim "fake news, liberal lies" and move on.
 
billvon said:
Dude, he raped a woman and committed 34 felonies. You think a picture like that would even move the needle? And he'd just claim "fake news, liberal lies" and move on.
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Yeah that occurred to me but once the picture is out there it is out there.
Do not underestimate the power of nylons.
 
billvon said:
Dude, he raped a woman and committed 34 felonies. You think a picture like that would even move the needle? And he'd just claim "fake news, liberal lies" and move on.
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He doesn't even need to claim anything.
His MAGAT fanbase simply says "We know, and WE DON'T CARE."
 
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