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Environment & Energy

taxi

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1. modernizing the U.S. electricity grid?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Nov 6, 2021, 01:41 PM

Nov 2021

Why not put it in newspeak and call it powering up America?

The new package also includes $73 billion for powering up America....instead of The new package also includes $73 billion for modernizing the U.S. electricity grid.

Isn't this a small part of differences in messaging as is sometimes discussed here?

Newspeak is a fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ... Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit the individual's ability to think and articulate "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

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