| ▲ | dboreham a day ago |
| Also CISA emails. Full Orwell. |
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| ▲ | cosmicgadget a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Newspeak was part of a grand plan to control thoughts. This is just the government version of a CEO who considers himself a thought leader and his every dumb whim is made policy by lackeys. Voters wanted the country to be run like a business, they're getting it. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel a day ago | parent | next [-] | | This is a loyalty test. If you say SI you gain a loyalty point. If you say AI you lose a loyalty point. The government is forcing you to choose whether you posture yourself to align with the government or against the government. | | |
| ▲ | Terr_ a day ago | parent | next [-] | | And like many "loyalty tests", one of the goals is to abuse the cooperators too, forcing them to ritually scar their reputations, impairing their ability to make a new home elsewhere. Sure, you got your "loyalty point", and maybe everyone agrees you had no choice, but you've also gotten a "damaged goods" point from the opposite perspective. Authoritarians know coercion doesn't demonstrate real loyalty, their real goal is to (A) deprive people of choices and (B) get them to misremember it as their own idea. | |
| ▲ | squarefoot 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Just coincidentally, .si is the Slovenian domain, .si domain registrations skyrocketed and Melania Trump is Slovenian. |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Was there merit to the domain squatting claims around Slovenian TLDs? | | |
| ▲ | cosmicgadget a day ago | parent [-] | | Good question but it seems like a small potatoes grift compared to the stock trades, crypto trades, and arm's length contracts. Plus throwing an executive tantrum over this has all the earmarks of a totally arbitrary obsession. |
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| ▲ | perching_aix 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's like a prank. "Let's see what I can make people say." |
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| ▲ | xdennis a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross a day ago | parent [-] | | Now do Lake America and the Gulf of America. I have a morbid fascination for this kind of rationalization. | | |
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