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MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
6. Can't wait to hear Lyndsay's reply.
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 01:43 PM
Oct 2019

He’ll probably cave and say all is well now, thanks to hero pence.

jayfish

(10,039 posts)
8. Here's A Preview
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 01:45 PM
Oct 2019

"It's not what we hoped for but it's what we are working with. ...slurp ...slurp ...slurp"

Doodley

(9,142 posts)
11. Breaking News 1939 - The British people have agreed to a 120 hour ceasefire, to evacuate the UK, so
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 02:06 PM
Oct 2019

that the Nazis may easily invade the country. Prime Minister Churchill said this was "good news for the Brits!"

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
13. A teeny lil correction
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 02:59 PM
Oct 2019

It was Neville Chamberlain who was PM until 1940, who was best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, which is very similar to what trump did.
Hitler took the appeasement exactly as Turkey has, and took over Poland.

DBoon

(22,401 posts)
12. Orwell on the maleability of truth in a fascist society
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 02:10 PM
Oct 2019
I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.


http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1
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