#Gauche (de rupture) vs Les #Médias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZFjCUrEfA0&ab_channel=LaVoixdesCitoyens

On comprend mieux pourquoi #Mélenchon et les #insoumis sont les cibles de l'oligarchie, de l'extrême droite, de la droite, de l'extrême centre et des sociaux-libéraux (injustement appelés sociaux-démocrates).

"A une époque de supercherie universelle, dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire." Georges #ORWELL

Our new yard sign, (not original)
#greyhoundsofmastodon #dogsofmastodon #orwell

Anat Shenker-Osorio: #Fascism and the English #language: The words we use matter. So let's say what's actually happening.

"As the #MAGA regime’s ongoing assault on our lives and our loved ones ramps up, many of us feel tongue-tied - at a loss for the words to express what is happening, let alone marshal resistance to it. But, as #Orwell said, “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought…"

#TheContrarian
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/fascism-and-the-english-language

> George #Orwell is a useful guide to what we’re witnessing. He understood that it is possible for people to seek power without having any vision of the good. “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake,” an apparatchik says in #1984. “We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in #power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.” How is power demonstrated? By making others #suffer. 1/2 #crueltyisthepoint

The American magazine Newsweek suggested how dictators #putin, #Trump, and Xi #Jinping will divide the world into spheres of influence.

#Europe, will we tolerate this?

Ignoring the fact that this map was copied from #Orwell's 1984, it's not realistic in any way - #Russia, with an economy the size of the Iberian peninsula, has absolutely zero chance of invading all of Europe.

It's a delusional fantasy with no basis in reality.

Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, nothing more and nothing less.”

The English language is taking a beating lately. #orwell #Languages

1Q84 ?Q0Q4? 村上春樹はまだ米国にいるかな？最近の状況について何か発言、　何か書いているのかな？
> "[We].. remember.. scenes from.. Orwell’s.. 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,”
https://tomdispatch.com/fortress-america/
#AlfredMcCoy #TomDispatch #TwoMinutesHate #Orwell

First they ban them, then they burn them #Orwell #1984 #fascism #totalitarian #ukpol
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads?CMP=share_btn_url

"Disappointing but not surprising" that elite instituions quickly roll for power
> ... although the country is quite free, nevertheless unpopular ideas can be suppressed without the use of force. Gave a couple of examples, provided a few words of explanation, which were to the point. One particularly pertinent comment was his observation on a quality education in the best schools, where it is instilled into you that there are certain things that it simply wouldn’t do to say—or, we may add, even to think.
https://www.democracynow.org/2015/9/22/noam_chomsky_on_the_myth_of
#AnimalFarm #Orwell

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print (or Ticktoks, or reels, or whatever)

2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.

3. If it it possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

4. Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active.

5....

1/2

While freely conceding that the Trumpublican regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the American people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.

#Orwell #USPol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u6a4x5c4feb4ovloona4ahsi/post/3li2p5ns3fk24

"there is potential for them to be misused for detrimental policies that target #refugees ."
Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian response
#UNHCR #Orwell
https://medium.com/unhcr-innovation-service/smarter-refugee-surveys-for-a-more-effective-humanitarian-response-ceb9e83e1211

#libri #cultura #educazione #identità #Trump #Usa
#Bradbury #Orwell
Fahrenheit 1984.
Oggi per @larepubblica_it

Avec ce roman mélancolique, George Orwell réalise une comédie de mœurs, une satire de la classe moyenne et de la lâcheté ordinaire. Écrit après son expérience espagnole (voir Hommage à la Catalogne), on ne peut que comprendre son amertume vis-à-vis de l’indifférence ambiante face à la montée des totalitarismes.

https://bibliothequefahrenheit.blogspot.com/2025/02/un-peu-dair-frais.html#more