It’s even worse. It’s 50% of voters. 30% of the population

The war is scheduled to end during infrastructure week, actually

You just earned my vote!

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’

hostis hominum

Well that answers my question of how this got past an editor, even in the 70s

The only thing they’re rethinking is how to repackage this so people accept it. They learned a lot from this, but I promise you it wasn’t the right lesson.

In that moment, they learned this is real life. They all clearly aren’t trained. If they were to be attacked by someone else with a real weapon, they would literally piss themselves. They should not be in the position they are in, where that is a real potential outcome in their line of work.

They’re also all going to have that memory seared into their minds for the rest of the years, whether they face real consequences or not. I hope the trauma ends their lives early as well, if I were then I’d be thinking about turning the gun on myself after doing that to an innocent man. But then again, I’m a human being

If you read the post, they specifically give credit to the Biden administration…

I no longer get excited about medical innovation because I know I’ll never be able to afford to benefit from any of it. I’m lucky to have gotten vaccinated as a child while that was still legal for the poors

Florida and Texas have some of the highest populations of illegal immigrants in the US.

They are simply reading the room and making a calculated choice. The public needs to continue putting the pressure on, they are cracking at the local level first.

Yeah your grandma is the only important life on earth. Fuck all the Ukrainian grandmothers and their families whose lives don’t matter at all, every tax dollar needs to go to your family first.

See I can “paraphrase” you too. Sorry for your loss.

No one is saying that except you bud.

Is this take supposed to be less pessimistic?

Putin has Musk and Trump by the balls, for sure.

Give him some time. Once his cronies get everything working right he won’t have to sue, he can just deny federal benefits to people who don’t order a cybertuck and send their hearts out to him when they receive it.

Proceeds to bring up the US anyway

I heard Elon had a super smart idea to beat inflation by selling salmonella eggs for $0.69/dozen under the brand name SEGGS (salmonella eggs)

I would argue books aren’t trivial things and this is actually an important thing to legislate