War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength
What's that, Donald? We are supposed to call it the Gulf of Mexico now? What, you mean the same way we all call Twitter "𝕏" now? The way pretty much everyone refers to it, in writing, seems to be "X, formerly known as Twitter". I think that The Gulf will forever be remembered as "Gulf of Mexico". This is Newspeak at work, at least attempting to be.. In the news, I noticed that Google announced¹ that they are reclassifying America as a 'sensitive country', along with the like of Israel, Russia and China. ¹ Google Maps may well be showing different names for The Gulf depending on where the user is based; some will see one version, some another, some possibly both.² There's a vast group of people who refer to the US Left liberals as "snowflakes", but this is the snowflakiest thing I believe I have read in my 64 years of reading things. The next fuckwit who calls me a liberal snowflake had better duck, and fast.
This is an example of your government at work, Making America Great Again by renaming things and attempting to rewrite history;"The Gulf of America has always been the Gulf of America". Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. I can think of countless things the White House resident could be doing to make America great, starting with those stupid red hats. At the very least make them in America. I'd be able to applaud that, at the very least with an ironic golf clap.
I also note that some of the "patriots" pardoned for invading Congress on January 6th, have already been arrested for new crimes. I hate having to write about current events with the current political climate; I would laugh if it didn't really fucking hurt. ALso, I am trying hard not to allow myself to be reduced to abuse of anyone, or to descned into "us vs. them". That said, what's next? Two minutes Hate? We're living in the universe imagined by Orwell, I can see the future in the film Brazil. But I am not laughing. Seriously, you should watch Gilliam's Brazil if you've not already; you will laugh through the pain and shame. Still, Lie Quest 2025 is coming, I console myself that we at least have some good material to write about. ALso, Brevity Quest 2025 begins Saturday, 1 February.
² "sensitive America" at CNBC
² I just checked, and Maps currently calls it the Gulf of Mexico. Still, there's always tomorrow, or at least we hope there is. Update: 31 january Still "Mexico".
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