Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 04:07:27 -0500
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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" 
>>>>>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>>>>>>> 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.