EveHammond13
EveHammond13's JournalWow. Boris Johnson kicked Nicholas Soames (grandson of Churchill) out of Parliament
he kicked him out of the party, so he can't run for re-election
Not sure he was going to run, but still.... what. an. ass.
trump's altered weather map is frightening "2 + 2 equals 5" authoritarian doublethink
Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare "two plus two equals five" as a fact; he ponders whether, if everybody believes it, that makes it true. The Inner Party interrogator of thought-criminals, O'Brien, says of the mathematically false statement that control over physical reality is unimportant; so long as one controls one's own perceptions to what the Party wills, then any corporeal act is possible, in accordance with the principles of doublethink ("Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once" ).[1]
Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. ... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened" – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
See also Alternative Facts.
trump obviously believes that his Word is The Truth, should be The Truth, and those around him and supporting him are on board.
I think it's more effective to say "Mass Shooting Prevention" than gun reform/gun control
Could you make a reparations argument based on voter suppression?
By depriving black voters of representation at all levels of government for generations, that community lost out on immeasurable public resources and programs they paid for but did not get. Resources that went to others. Their taxes went to feed their own oppressors.
Resources that were supposed to fix roads, build infrastructure, build schools, provide public safety, provide clean water, pay teachers, provide after-school and pre-k enrichment, job training, build parks for recreation and organized youth sports, make loans to homeowners and small businesses, pass laws and regulations in the interest of the community (i.e. no disproportionate policing and punishments based on race, accountability for abusive police). To protect and build the community.
Taxation without representation. For generations. The official system sucking the community dry of all resources, financial and other, for generations.
It could also be characterized as unjust enrichment for those who received the misallocated tax dollars.
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