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kairos12

(13,596 posts) Fri Feb 17, 2023, 02:41 PM Feb 2023

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

Way too prescient.

Unfortunately.

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Aldous Huxley saw the impact of Chump/MAGA verbal sewage coming. (Original Post) kairos12 Feb 2023 OP

So did George Orwell anamnua Feb 2023 #2

Picked the wrong day to die, November 22, 1963. Sneederbunk Feb 2023 #3

(288 posts)

1. Well, he did get to observe the rise of Lenin and then Stalin, mussolini, Hitler, and Mao.

Fri Feb 17, 2023, 02:55 PM

Feb 2023

So not hard to predict Trump and all the other want-to-be authoritarians.

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2. So did George Orwell

Fri Feb 17, 2023, 02:56 PM

Feb 2023

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell, 1984

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3. Picked the wrong day to die, November 22, 1963.

Fri Feb 17, 2023, 04:47 PM

Feb 2023