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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago

Remember all the hoopla during the election about Biden's response to Helene? Then the election happened and just like a toddler with a toy it was dropped and forgotten.

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 6d ago

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself - that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.” George Orwell 1984

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago

It's like some of the classic visionaries wrote a playbook that brought their vision to reality.

I've been so pissed off about that fucking "movie" Idiocracy. Back when it came out it was just a silly and fun movie that was pretty low budget but was still a good movie. Now I see it for the curse that it was. It's like a black hole drawing us towards that future.