NP but close
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at sover.net
Sun Apr 2 23:05:57 UTC 2023
Precise, powerfully stated and accurate.
Repetition is the key to making this lopsided language work. Such language flies from every corner of a culture that is intellectually depleted and too lazy and frightened to question the newest Orwellian trend.
> On Apr 2, 2023, at 2:52 PM, Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> - Disinformation is just a jargon word with a subliminal meaning, thrown out by the mighty of the earth whenever they worry that they are about to lose an argument—something that happens with painful regularity these days. The word means, “Shut up, peasant.” It’s a bullet aimed at killing the conversation. It’s loaded with hostility to reason, evidence, debate and all the stuff that makes our democracy great. -
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> https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2023/03/30/disinformation-is-the-word-i-use-when-i-want-you-to-shut-up/
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> - In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime’s aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That’s why the authorities can never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system. -
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> https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
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