Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 04:07:27 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [OT] German politician successfully prosecuted for telling the truth Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <20240522125702.0000756a@example.com> <17d212040b63de98$19324$3841210$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com> <17d2c7ee328cc1bd$114652$2863996$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 62 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 09:07:28 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3174 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17d34d467b63f0d0$171$3896011$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3553 On 5/26/24 9:19 AM, FPP wrote: > On 5/25/24 12:23 PM, trotsky wrote: >> On 5/24/24 9:43 AM, moviePig wrote: >>> On 5/24/2024 4:19 AM, trotsky wrote: >>>> On 5/23/24 2:48 PM, moviePig wrote: >>>>> On 5/23/2024 4:50 AM, trotsky wrote: >>>>>> On 5/22/24 5:56 PM, moviePig wrote: >>>>>>> On 5/22/2024 6:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>> On May 22, 2024 at 9:57:02 AM PDT, "Rhino" >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Once again, Leo Kearse hits it out of the park: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5uW1Htq7XU [10 minutes] >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> She cited the government's own statistics and was prosecuted for >>>>>>>> it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Truth is now illegal. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Orwell (and likely moviePig) would be proud. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, Orwell and I share some view or other?  Sounds okay... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Let's also be clear that the Inner Party (I know, Twat has no idea >>>>>> what that is restated the truth as doublespeak, such as "the >>>>>> chocolate ration has been raised from 28 grams to 20 grams."  Why >>>>>> does "right wing illiterate asshole" have to be *this* redundant? >>>>>> >>>>>> Such language described by Orwell is called doublespeak. It is >>>>>> explained by William Lutz, author of the book “Doublespeak”, as >>>>>> language which “makes the bad seem good, the negative appear >>>>>> positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least tolerable. >>>>>> It is language that conceals or prevents thought.”Jun 14, 2022 >>>>>> >>>>>> 2.10: Double Speak - Social Sci LibreTexts >>>>>> Social Sci LibreTexts >>>>>> https://socialsci.libretexts.org › Argument_and_Debate >>>>> >>>>> I was going to say you're thinking of Frank Luntz, but lo and >>>>> behold... >>>> >>>> I don't follow. >>> >>> Frank Luntz is the Conservative mastermind who invented reworking >>> terminology to make abhorrent concepts sound palatable.  It's >>> chicanery close enough to "double speak" that I thought "William >>> Lutz" was your misremembering of "Frank Luntz". >> >> >> I see said the blind man. >> > > "As he picked up his hammer and saw." Ooh that's a moviepig caliber pun. Which of course is damning with faint praise.