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kentuck

(111,076 posts) Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:15 AM Dec 2016

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Welcome to the alternate universe.

Everything you have known or accepted as normal in the past no longer exists.

Government, relationships, the media, civil rights, facts and reality, everything has changed.

It's a strange feeling. Your mind and body cannot accept the new world.

The unknown future is scary and unpredictable.

You have not yet learned how to assimilate into the new fascism.

Good luck!

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Welcome to the alternate universe. (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2016 OP

this is exactly what it feels like. sarah FAILIN Dec 2016 #1

The one Orwellian oxymoron that appears to be true is world wide wally Dec 2016 #2

Resistance is futile. kentuck Dec 2016 #3

How do I get back to where I was before? GeorgeGist Dec 2016 #4

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)

1. this is exactly what it feels like.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:22 AM

Dec 2016

Up is down, down is up.

world wide wally

(21,740 posts)

2. The one Orwellian oxymoron that appears to be true is

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:31 AM

Dec 2016

"Ignorance is strength"

kentuck

(111,076 posts)

3. Resistance is futile.

Reply to world wide wally (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 11:33 AM

Dec 2016

Once that becomes the "norm", it is all over. Turn out the lights, the party's over...

GeorgeGist

(25,318 posts)

4. How do I get back to where I was before?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 12:27 PM

Dec 2016

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