Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: [OT] German politician successfully prosecuted for telling the truth Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 10:19:29 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <20240522125702.0000756a@example.com> <17d212040b63de98$19324$3841210$c6d58c68@news.newsdemon.com> <17d2c7ee328cc1bd$114652$2863996$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 16:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="00040a923e79ee1b314a0cce36196e72"; logging-data="3619345"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ByfnQLsbMhpRNTB7fbHud" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pz2fLUBHguycpCMKlQ5Jla9/zFs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <17d2c7ee328cc1bd$114652$2863996$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3848 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." -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0