• irreticent@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy.”

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    It’s a common tactic with fascist regimes. Nazis used to do it with Jewish propaganda by simultaneously claiming that Jews were weak vermin that needed to be exterminated and that they are this supervillain that controls all the money.

    You currently see it a lot with the people chanting “Genocide Joe” and claiming he is some mastermind warhawk with at the same time claiming that he is some feeble, senile old man. He’s Schrödinger’s politician!

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            7 months ago

            That’s almost the most evasive thing you could have said. The question was what do you think the Republican leadership hopeful Nikki Haley meant by writing “finish them” on an Israeli bomb?

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              That they’re as genocidal as the Democrats.

              That doesn’t make Biden a criminal mastermind playing 4d chess, it makes him a head of state who supports it.

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                  “Ooohhh don’t bomb them with the bombs we gave you we’ll do nothing if you do despite multiple laws requiring us to not keep giving you bombs ohhhh noooo”

                  And you people wonder why the actual left keeps muttering about what happens when you get scratched, lul.

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                    7 months ago

                    Well, actually there’s the law passed in 2008 requiring him to ensure that Israel is better armed than all of its neighbours.

                    The election is on a knife edge according to the polls. Who do you think would be worse for Gaza, Biden or Trump?