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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] How to live like a Doge
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:56 -0600
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On 2/21/2025 6:44 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:42:00 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/21/2025 10:54 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:58:17 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> (chomp)
>>>> Perhaps "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
>>>> others”
>>>>
>>>> As George Orwell writes
>>>>
>>>> John B.
>>>
>>> Animal Farm is a satire on the characters from the 1917 Russian
>>> revolution.
>>> <https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01000508/Centricity/Domain/1814/animal%20farm%20communism%20comparison.pdf>
>>>
>>> There are also other Orwellian terms and phrases such as the various
>>> 1984 NewSpeak dictionaries:
>>> <https://filmschoolrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1984_-_newspeak_dictionary.pdf>
>>> <https://www.orwell.org/dictionary/>
>>> More of the same:
>>> <https://www.google.com/search?q=newspeak%20dictionary>
>>>
>>> Newspeak should work well in rec.bicycles.tech.
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak>
>>> "...Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and
>>> limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical
>>> thinking."
>>> Hmmmm...  Perhaps I'm wrong.  Most of the discussions in RBT are
>>> highly critical of literally everything.  The remaining discussions
>>> seem to involve little thought.
>>>
>>> I'm gone for a hike in the park while I contrive some Newspeak terms
>>> appropriate to this group.
>>>
>>
>> As the quotable Felicia Middlebrooks always said, "A mix of
>> sun and rain. Just like life itself."
>>
>> And therein lies the beauty and wisdom of our beloved 1st
>> Amendment. Unique in all the world.
> 
> Which came  about because of a loud mouth, radical, minority.
> Did it not?

Absolutely.

The milquetoasts don't need their speech protected, such as 
it is.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971