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They´re coming to take me away,
Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the prison yard
Where one is dutiful all the time
#GodBlessThisMess #WarIsPeace #FreedomIsSlavery #IgnoranceIsStrength #AreYouSafeOrFurtherDownTheList

Thought Police crash through the door of a classic American household while the denizens within look on in shock and horror

Federal officials are quietly terminating the legal residency of some international college students
https://apnews.com/article/college-international-student-f1-visa-ice-trump-7a1d186c06a5fdb2f64506dcf208105a
#politics #UnitedStates #news #authoritarianism #IgnoranceIsStrength #nineteen_eighty_four

@DP0 @georgetakei

Full text:

A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURN

It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

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#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism

@DP0 @georgetakei

Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

(Full text is in the replies, as a thread.)

#ignorance #IgnoranceIsStrength #illiteracy #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #CultOfIgnorance #antiintellectualism

@mago

/s Klar, wenn das schon die #Weidel und #Musk öffentlichkeitswirksam auf der zu schliessenden Platform "X" "diskutieren". /s

#IgnoranceIsStrength #1984

A dark-red V in a blavk background.
Slogans from #GeorgeOrwell's dystopian masterpiece, 1984.

Caption:
"War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

INGSOC"

[...Oceania's political system, Ingsoc (English Socialism, a parody of the British socialist Fabian Society, founded in London in 1884),...]

Source:
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.280714697.2722/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg

@loysbonod ah oui défendu bec et ongles par Jordan Bardella d'ailleurs #ignoranceisstrength #warispeace #1984

Freedom of expression includes the right to receive and share information, so people can form opinions.

Selectively throttling search results on social media constrains the pluralism of information and views.

Here you can see the censorship machinery in action on TikTok 👀

#IgnoranceIsStrength

#TikTok #Musk #Meta #Zuckerberg #Trump #censorship #socialmedia #freespeech #freedomofexpression

Meta gives Trump and his supporters a heart emoji

https://wapo.st/4h3NTwW

#WarIsPeace #IgnoranceIsStrength #FreedomIsSlavery #FactCheckersCauseDistrustNotLies

The GOP really is a fucking death cult. Calling an American Republican “Pro-Life” makes as much sense as The Three Slogans in 1984. #IgnoranceIsStrength https://masto.ai/@rbreich/113159484338444777

Remember, it’s not that the AI doesn’t know about pornography or terrorism, it’s just that it won’t talk about it with you …now extrapolate that to the other subjects where the owner has decided “it’s not supposed to say that”. #IgnoranceIsStrength

@coldfish @susankayequinn @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews During the energy crisis in the 70s, #JimmyCarter wore a #cardigan during a Presidential address—all he asked us to do was to moderate our thermostat settings; heat to 66°F or less and cool to 78°F or higher. He was crushed by the #ReaganBush #IgnoranceIsStrength campaign, partly for asking Americans to make a trivial sacrifice for the good of all, and partly due to the treasonous interference by #Reagan in the #Iran_hostage_crisis negotiations. There has not yet been a campaign cycle when a progressive anything like AOC could have won, unless you would count Bernie in 2016. I voted for him in the California primary since I thought that he might have won, after the GOP had demonized Clinton for 20 years and nominated their worst candidate since Goldwater. I was also sick of neoliberal appeasement of the rich.

@nosrednayduj #USPolitics #PoliticalCartoon #MikeLuckovich #ClimateCrisis #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #Republicans #RepublicanParty #GOP #RepublicansAreTheProblem #IgnoranceIsStrength

Thermometer labeled Climate Crisis reads almost 140°; an anthropomorphized Republican elephant in glasses and black suit and tie exclaims, "Something must be done!..." Next panel: he's holding a sign, "BAN THERMOMETERS".

(Cartoon signed Mike Luckovich)

@Dee

Whereas, for Blu-Ray Discs, there are but three regions in the world - Oceania, East Asia, Eurasia...

#IgnoranceIsStrength

@KeithDJohnson “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.”
—Isaac Asimov #IgnoranceIsStrength

@mistersixt How do you spell 1984 in #Russian? #IgnoranceIsStrength! Long live the #MinistryOfTruth #Wikipedian

No good deed goes unpunished when you “blow the whistle” on the famous, powerful, rich and secretive people and their organisations ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWkGmw3xMTU

#whistleblowers #STFU #shitfuckery #JuiceMedia #ignoranceisstrength #enshittification

https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-wont-participate-us-food-204427597.html
#FreedomIsSlavery #IgnoranceIsStrength :blobawkward:

A greedy, power-hungry syndicate manipulating tens of millions of America’s most ignorant, paranoid, hateful citizens: the Republican Party.
#RepublicanParty #GOP #MAGA #Deplorables #DonaldTrump #Trumpism #StochasticTerrorism #IgnoranceIsStrength