The modern iteration of book burning creates a lot less smoke and noise, so it can fly under the radar.
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One of my more fun conspiracies is that we have been going through this cycle for eons. There's no previous record of this beyond myths of giants and angels because eventually society gets so advanced permeant records of its existence cease. Everything is digital. It can be erased with the bat of an eye. This is why all we can find is carvings from the beginning of our iteration with memories from people as to what existed before the crash and then it gets lost. We look at it as myths but maybe they weren't. Maybe they were more advanced than us and pushed back to the stone age.
what the fuck are they going to ultimately say the underground railroad was? What will they say it was helping who escape? THIS WHOLE THING IS STUPID!
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
might be a bit pretentious to quote 1984 but boy, try telling me the right wing reality distortion field doesn't exist.
That's legitimately why the republicans want to rename the Gulf of Mexico
What do you mean "rename"? It's always been the Gulf of America.
we have always been allied with eurasia. we have always been at war with east asia
Ouch, this physically hurt haha
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Not pretentious at all. This is the exact thing Orwell was warning about. Never a better time to quote it.
It was a fun place people could pretend to be trains! Choo chooo!!
Hey man, get with the times, that name makes Hesgeth angy
Enola still sounds a bit woman-y. Maybe replace it with something manly like Donald.
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No way would they put up anything that suggested someone could be trains.
These are the same folks that say the civil war was fought for "states rights".
They have no problem with ignoring details.
Soon you'll only get "Did you mean 'the subway'?" search results with "underground railroad".
To be replaced by "Harold Whiteman", a dapper man of Nordic ancestry, who helped white slaves escape from white slavery with the help of the friendly neighborhood watch organization, the KKK!
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This, and all the other sites they've taken down, are meant to be freely accessible to everyone. This is what your taxes actually pay for. The government runs a massive research operation, and library, for everyone. This is a book burning.
They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family...
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Fucking racists
I wonder if black republicans will go back to picking cotton in order to own the libs.
Of course they will
"Eliminate DEI content" actually means "government-sponsored open bigotry".
Yeah, this isn’t DEI, and the media needs to call that out.
If by "this," you mean the reference towards Tubman, then you're wrong. Talking about the accomplishments of anyone who isn't a straight white Christian man IS promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion! DEI is a good thing! Opposing it is explicitly racist!
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Jesus fucking Christ
New quote:
"Immigrants mysteriously disappeared from their jobs in the South and reappeared in the North. No women were involved in this process."
All of the workers in the south worked really hard for their boss and earned a promotion and moved into luxury in the north. All of these people were hardworking Americans and none of them were black
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"Yeah, about your pamphlet...I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945."
"Everyone was on vacation."
"What are you talking about, Germany invaded Poland in 1939."
"We were invited! Punch was served. Check with Poland!"
"You can't just ignore those years! Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany!"
"Nope...He left to manage a Dairy Queen!"
"A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous!"
"I will hear NO MORE insinuations about the German people. NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!"
The white washing is just pathetic. MAGAts a such snowflakes.
This is about flexing their power. They are showing that they won and they are going to force their values down everyone else's throat.
Don't belittle them by calling them pathetic. Call it what it is.
This is fascism.
Fascism is pathetic. It's extremely dangerous and causes massive suffering, but it's also pathetic.
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Oh, ok, so now Civilization VII is more historically accurate than the National Park Service. That's... ugh
In other news, Harriet Tubman has been collecting social security for 200 years and her remains have been deported back to her own country of El Salvador.
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They're just following orders. Like a good nazi
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
Holy fucking shit! This is it! I've had it! WTF!!!!!!!
When is the next protest?!
Holy flying fucking Jesus!
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At this rate Django Unchained might end up being more historically accurate than our official records..
Wow, I'm so glad I live in this stupid fucking country. 🤦♂️
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!
Proof this trump administration hates black people? I think so.
Disgraceful.
Had the campaign to put Tubman on the $20 succeeded, they'd be removing her from it.
They’re reading 1984 and applying the wrong part of it.