George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon

Post by Hondor » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

bamboozled wrote: post #412

akiselev wrote: post #309

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> I hear this one a lot, do you have a source to prove this? What kinds of source would be most convincing for such a broad question such as this? How about the fact that as many people have escaped extreme poverty since 1990 as there are human beings alive in Europe [1]? Average global purchasing power more than doubling [2]? Or maybe global agricultural output growing more than twice as fast as the world population…

If you're starving and working in a toxic garbage dump, how does a smart phone or cell phone improve the situation? Honest question. If the government is corrupt, and steal infact money from citizenss, is a cell phone going to put food on your table? It could actually be used against a population. Think mass surveillance, censorship or false news for example. Also, the OP said the "poorest", from my own observations…

Post by pg314 » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 1:59 PM UTC

masondixon wrote: post #456

pg314 wrote: post #397

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On his efforts to undermine a free press, just a couple that come to mind: - he threatened legal action against the NYT [1] - he said he would 'open up those libel laws' [2] - he lies about falling subscription numbers at the 'failing NYT' [3] - in his first press conference in the White House he attacked a reporter as 'fake news', and refused to answer questions by CNN [4] - he tweets [5] incorrect ratings numbers a…

[2] Talk is cheap. Honestly, what do you think is going to happen? And in 4 years when we look back, if it doesn't happen - what will you think? [3] How is it a lie? > is losing thousands of subscribers You interpret this as net subscriber count to suit your narrative. Now if the NYT lost subscribers during the election which they almost certainly did then the first part of the statement is literally correct. Now the…

  Definition of lie
  1  to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive  
  2  to create a false or misleading impression  

Post by thrillgore » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 2:01 PM UTC

beloch wrote: post #17

I must admit, I'm really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S.. Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it. Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but…

Post by 3chelon » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

Post by marcosdumay » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 2:31 PM UTC

joeguilmette wrote: post #355

soft_dev_person wrote: post #288

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The cynical among us have been saying that nothing presented by the White house (and any other government institutions) can be trusted at face value for years. I guess now is the time where everyone becomes a cynic. But is that such a bad thing? They say access journalism is dead, but access journalism is just repeating stuff said by people with power. Making them accountable is a good thing. Trump may have unintenti…

>> Trump may have unintentionally restored investigative journalism... This can happen if they can find a way to monetize text that costs 100x more to produce and has 100x less engagement than clickbait.