Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 18:32:20 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] German politician successfully prosecuted for telling the truth References: <20240522125702.0000756a@example.com> <17d212040b63de98$19324$3841210$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 11:41:47 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-QMjPdjOiDO+Wc3CCV6DGLky5An68VaQdu4xlpZQWE90V2GqEwjTbkC33vdxT32NDuRXavgl3y3IUHVl!WbxYepKs5aCOUjaZaf80cx0qX95eigUVichf2DoZpCyA6rT8gjZGx9suNzrAmrWdC2DuTthN6twy!5Jk= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2264 In article <17d212040b63de98$19324$3841210$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com>, 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... > 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." Just like "men are women", "fat is healthy", "taxes can change the weather", and "free western societies are oppressors" while "murderous an oppressive Islamic theocracies are victims".