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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts) Sun Jan 22, 2017, 01:26 PM Jan 2017

Alternative Facts Orwellian Double Speak

This is double plus ungood.

Remember how one of the points of double speak was to limit vocabulary and streamline sentences so that a person could say what they had to in as few words as possible? I just realized that is what the Commander in Tweet is doing with his Twitter account.

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Alternative Facts Orwellian Double Speak (Original Post) ProudLib72 Jan 2017 OP
DingDingDing!!! 2naSalit Jan 2017 #1
K&R! / nt Sunny05 Jan 2017 #2
Yep, pretty much... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #3
Yes but ProudLib72 Jan 2017 #4
roamer65 unbellyfeel Drumpf. roamer65 Jan 2017 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,703 posts)
3. Yep, pretty much...
Reply to ProudLib72 (Original post)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 01:47 PM
Jan 2017

Control language and you control how people think. The RW has been doing it for years. Check out Frank Luntz. Trump is just the latest.

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ProudLib72

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4. Yes but
Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #3)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 05:31 PM
Jan 2017

the question I have, what really makes me think about it, is whether tRump is a willing participant. Do you think he realized Twitter could be used for double speak? Maybe repukes just naturally gravitate toward the mechanisms of double speak.

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