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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2006492

Fox News appears to have removed their DOW ticker in a pattern for the company, choosing to block out the steep drop in DOW points after Trump's tariff announcement

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[–] [email protected] 355 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Somehow this is the most dystopian thing I've witnessed recently. Just straight up disappearing reality once it doesn't fit the regime's narrative. Chilling.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…

War is peace

Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Should be updated to include "empathy is sin".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Racism is virtue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Empathy is weakness

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don't think these freaks view it as a sin, just as a weakness... which is maybe worse.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.

But I'd realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn't hear about it daily.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Let's add: Poverty is wealth

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago

Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.

A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn't the salute.

The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.

Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Knowledge is power

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I think the other famous one applies even more:

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

---George Orwell, 1984.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Next, 1984 will be banned in US

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.

The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US is what Americans think China is.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

... and they're not wrong. Now we have two authoritarian world powers, yay!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Trump and Xi both want unlimited terms. Xi got his and Trump is jealous.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Yes thank the nearest Republican to you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"If we stopped testing we wouldn't have so many positive cases"

This is hardly new.