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Truly, the US has arrived

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 10 months ago to History
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I'm embarrassed to say I never bothered to read Orwell's 1984 until recently. Imagine my discomfort, considering what I've written, to come across this passage. Truly, the US has passed into this phase of depravity.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    allosaur that is not a healthy thought.

    as for aja we have an uneducated populas so 1984 has become real.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Replace them with the bastions of socialism- like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama. We are going that way anyway
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 10 months ago
    If they are going to remove the confederacy from history, they might as remove all of history, including george washington and thomas jefferson (who were both slave holders).

    Removing history means we cant learn FROM history.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We could switch it around , maybe add a few more adjectives to create an acronym.
    I am thinking SPUK (scumbag parasitical unwashed kakistocrats) as it has a double entendre.
    In the urban dictionary 2nd definition... SPUK = Any creamy, white, food sauce that gets spilled in the crotch region leaving suspicious stains. Is usually accompanied by a foul smell.
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  • Posted by Suzanne43 8 years, 10 months ago
    I wish that I had the money to put this Orwell quote on billboards across the country. But then again maybe it's too late to wake this country up.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Gosh, Dino, why would they bother with Clinton and Obama when they can just carve in Marx and Lenin? :-)
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 10 months ago
    Me dino just imagined George Washington and Thomas Jefferson removed from Mount Rushmore and replaced by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
    Founding Fathers? What Founding Fathers?
    Are we talking about some despicable slave owners who wrote a flawed document?
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  • Posted by mccannon01 8 years, 10 months ago
    It clearly offers an explanation as to why I believe a high school graduate in 1980 knew less about American History than an eighth grader in 1940 and a college graduate today knows less than a high school graduate in 1980. I must admit history wasn't my favorite subject back in the '60s, but I am amazed at how much more I knew then than the kids do today. After HS I pursued history more earnestly and began reading more books on the subject. Understanding history was extremely important when I read "Atlas Shrugged" for the first time in the mid '70s.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes it is no accident this couldn't happen with out the concerted effort of a group of unwashed parasitical kakistratic scumbags.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm with you on that, AJ. Much of what we see and experience was planned a long time ago, much farther back in history than you might imagine.
    Harken, though, those that plan to deceive are really not all that smart but persistent, which is why it's taken so long...the minds of men, (hebrew for human) still exists and thrives abet at smaller and smaller percentages.
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  • Posted by voodoo59 8 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed they could-and they'd be right. A look through any high school history book will show the revisionist historians have been cranking out alt-history for a long time .
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