“We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day.… The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime [having unorthodox thoughts] literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
-- Syme, 1984
“the ultimate aim of Newspeak is to enclose people in an orthodox pseudo-reality and isolate them from the real world.”
-- Jem Berkes
“President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over [his first] 263 days [in office]. Many of these claims are repeated over and over again – significantly more than three times."
-- Washington Post’s Fact Check project
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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