Oceania Had Always Been At War With EastWingia: Now, We Are, Too

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”--George Orwell, "1984"

Winston Smith: "Does Big Brother exist?"
O'Brien: "Of course he exists."
Winston Smith: "Does he exist like you or me?"
O'Brien: "You do not exist.”

After hearing the The Pfifth Reich yesterday claiming that “Disagreement = Death!”, I wrote:

“When did Democrats become complete, total, raving hysterical psychopaths, anyway? It must have been when they realized the American People had gone MAGA and Dems were never, ever going to win an honest election again. Never.

I know it’s just a cheap way to win an argument, but seriously, “You’re killing people!” is all they ever argue now.

Disagree on vaccines? You’re killing people.
Disagree on the 2nd Amdt.? You’re killing people.
Disagree on LGBT? You’re killing people.
Disagree on Open Borders? Still killing.
Health Care? Killah.
Abortion? Ditto.
Election fraud? You’re Al Capone.
Jan. 6th? Bugsy Siegel.
Climate Change? Machine Gun Kelly
Invade a safe space? Murderer.
Critical Race Theory? Racist murderer.

No Debate, No Counter-Argument, All Hysteria, All the Time, Cranked to 11″…….

But I didn’t quite connect the next dot. If all those things are also “killing people”, then all those things are subject to surveillance and censorship, too

And we know from the NY Post’s laptop story that corruption reports are fair game to be censored. Also sitting presidents. And stories on Election Audits. It’s total.

As in "Totalitarian”.

"...so then I told 'em: "Censorship is Infrastructure!""

"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." 

Scott Johnson, however, connected the dot: 

Toward Minitrue | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

“Omri Ceren: “One weird thing about our political moment is the lack of consensus about how all of this is screamingly batshit crazy.”

Psaki justified the administration’s promotion of censorship by reference to the life and death issues involved. According to Psaki and her animatronic boss, Facebook is killing people with “misinformation.” That is a rationale that can be applied to speech on any significant political subject. It is astounding that the assembled professionals of the White House press corps have failed to seek out any limiting principle from Psaki or her animatronic boss. …

George Orwell imagined the Ministry of Truth — “Minitrue,” in Newspeak — to serve Big Brother in the dystopia of 1984. The Ministry of Truth protected the the regime’s orthodoxies, even as they contradicted each other over time: “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” I am not sure that even Orwell could have imagined the animatronic boss who is bringing us ever closer to Oceania.”…….

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

"We believe in Free Speech.
 
For ourselves. Yours is problematic.

Or optional.

Okay--dispensable.

Screw it. Sit down and shut up."



Christopher Hitchens - [~2005] - Why Orwell Matters - YouTube


"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." No.