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smokingman · Feb 29, 2024

daddyusmaximus said:
An active duty US Airman lights himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of what he called a "genocide" of the Palestinian people.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-claimed-secret-knowledge-of-us-forces-in-gaza/

Our nation has a SERIOUS problem with propaganda, and mental health.

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This young dilutional Airman killing himself is being praised by the left as a brave act...
Hell, next thing we know there will be American suicide bombers running around.

Sen. Cotton Asks Pentagon Why Airman Who Self-Immolated Was Allowed To Serve | ZeroHedge

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“You have made it a top priority to address ‘extremism’ amongst our total force, and this act of horrific violence—in support of a terrorist group—raises serious questions about how this individual was allowed to serve on active duty,” Mr. Cotton wrote.

Aaron Bushnell, 25, a member of the U.S. Air Force, self-immolated in protest against Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip that followed the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas.

Before setting himself on fire, he said he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and would therefore “engage in an extreme act of protest,” repeating the phrase “free Palestine.”

The man passed away as a result of his severe injuries.

In a press release, Mr. Cotton said Mr. Bushnell’s actions show that he “obviously harbored extreme, anti-American views.”

Mongo59 · Feb 29, 2024

daddyusmaximus said:
An active duty US Airman lights himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of what he called a "genocide" of the Palestinian people.

https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-claimed-secret-knowledge-of-us-forces-in-gaza/

Our nation has a SERIOUS problem with propaganda, and mental health.

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This young dilutional Airman killing himself is being praised by the left as a brave act...
Hell, next thing we know there will be American suicide bombers running around.

Personally, I would like to volunteer a couple of Clintons... either category...

ZurokSlayer7X9 · Feb 29, 2024

daddyusmaximus said:
Our nation has a SERIOUS problem with propaganda, and mental health.

This was probably one of the most significant quotes made on INGO in recent history, especially the propaganda part. I can't tell you how many family members believe something because the freaking TV tells them to. Then when the message flips more than a flip-flop, they don't see inconsistencies.

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

ZurokSlayer7X9 said:
This was probably one of the most significant quotes made on INGO in recent history, especially the propaganda part. I can't tell you how many family members believe something because the freaking TV tells them to. Then when the message flips more than a flip-flop, they don't see inconsistencies.

Ever read 1984?

ZurokSlayer7X9 · Feb 29, 2024

actaeon277 said:
Ever read 1984?

I know the gist of it, but still on my "need to read" list.

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

ZurokSlayer7X9 said:
I know the gist of it, but still on my "need to read" list.

There are also movies. If I remember, at least two.

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivious for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – al this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of (203>204) doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984

rbhargan · Feb 29, 2024

ZurokSlayer7X9 said:
I know the gist of it, but still on my "need to read" list.

There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

ZurokSlayer7X9 · Feb 29, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

The funny thing is in high school, nearly every one of those books were required reading for a class I didn't have. My English classes had me read: Lord of the Flies, In Cold Blood, The Crucible, some others I don't remember. My Film-Lit teacher had Brave New World posters covering nearly every square inch of his room. Despite going to a prepatory/liberal arts high school, some teachers knew what was up. Though I'm glad I graduated when I did.

TheGrumpyGuy · Feb 29, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

I seem to recall reading all of those by my senior year, and several others, as part of the curriculum

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

A government that WANTS sheep, does not teach it's citizens about Lions.

smokingman · Feb 29, 2024

actaeon277 said:
to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.”
― George Orwell, 1984

We are certainly here currently. Take the attacks on free speech for example or propping up dictators, while removing opposing views from elections in our own country.

actaeon277 · Feb 29, 2024

Two different versions of 1984 on Amazon Prime

ZurokSlayer7X9 · Feb 29, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

Well I'll consider this a shopping list next time I order stuff. I'll only get physical media though. I can't fill the bookshelves in my living room with digital copies.

ZurokSlayer7X9 · Feb 29, 2024

I also recommend these.

Tombs · Mar 1, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

I feel like you could have someone watch demolition man (movie) and get 99% of the way there to knowing what the bad path leads to.

A lot of these things are pretty disarming just due to stereotypical situations that a person assumes would never happen to them.

Just have them read starship troopers to get an understanding of what a properly founded and organized government looks like and how that serves its people. Heinlein was a lot more clever than people realize, about how you manage to organize a liberal state such that it isn't prone to people voting for welfare and collapsing it over time.

smokingman · Mar 1, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

I would add
The indoctrinated brain - Michael Nehls
and to know what you are up against, and who is setting up the west to fail
to create a new "equitable one world" government. The model he lays out
is pretty much the model of the EU. Unelected bureaucrats telling those the peasants
vote on(the possible pool of candidates chosen by the unelected) what to do. In short
dystopian hell.

Covid-19 The great reset - Klaus Schwab

If you get some other free time try this.
What nurses saw - Ken McCarthy

Magyars · Mar 1, 2024

rbhargan said:
There should be a required reading list in schools. Start with,
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell

They should be assigned in that order starting in the 7th grade.

In today's schools, 7th graders couldn't read Atlas Shrugged

jwamplerusa · Mar 1, 2024

ZurokSlayer7X9 said:
I know the gist of it, but still on my "need to read" list.

@ZurokSlayer7X9

You NEED to read 1984. Just keep telling yourself it WAS NOT intended to be an instruction manual.

When I read it, it was still clearly dystopian science fiction. Sadly today, it seems more like it was used an instructional manual by the American Communists and their WEF supporters.

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