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Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say (newrepublic.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I guess it’s time for a new edition of the newspeak dictionary

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

So they're not allowed to talk about reality, or how to make anything better. And the fascists in charge must know this is what they're doing, but they don't care.

I keep thinking of how the Buddha recognized three poisons of the mind: greed, hatred and ignorance. Right-wing politics is pure poison.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

hey don't forget "wind power" surely wouldn't want to let that slip and wake up in prison

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

I understand why most of these are banned, as they’re trying to remove any rhetoric about pollution or clean energy. But why diesel? Why prefabricated housing? Like what?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

"Global warming" and "potable water" slated for comebacks?

Full disclosure: I didn't click through, but also didn't see these on the quoted list.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

“solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy” are all banned.

From now on they are to be referred to as “sun coal” “volcanic coal” and “atom coal”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

This shit is absolutely unreal...

So I guess we're going back to actively speed running the ruination of our planet now.

I hope whatever takes over after us, if there is anything left, notes that humanity's end came at the hands of a very small number of petty assholes who would rather try to kill all life on the planet than admit to being wrong about anything.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

So... big brother has demanded they enact newspeak. Got it