Invitation, which has yet to be confirmed by Washington, raises more questions about the intended agenda for the board
      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        23 hours ago

        Don’t be like a teenage me and get bored and speed through the parts about language… It may seem dry, but it turns out those were some of his most accurate predictions

        • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          I read it a few times but I realized there was more to get from it cause I sort of sped read through some (dry) parts the first time. This was back in the mid 2000s when there was less relevant information for us in North America at the time. Nowadays it needs to be brought in for any decent curriculum, though I don’t think the fascists would approve that.

          Course in the US there’s a lot less demanding of education for reasons like this book, you understand what can lead to our current situation and see how harmful it is. Heaven forbid the common folk understand propaganda like they show. Any truly great society would relish in their citizens being well educated and informed of such things to make better progress going forward.

      • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        In the very beginning there’s a scene where people are watching a war film that seemed eerily reminiscent of the attacks on boats in Venezuela.

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Any excuse to charge the company credit card. Extracting money from the federal government for their donors has been the reason for being of politicians, since before we were born.

        In all likelihood, barring popular muscular opposition, ha ha, they will bankrupt the country and maxx out our credit before the party loses power. I suspect they de facto default by printing money to pay off debts that waters down the value, a classic in monarchies in europe over the centuries, although they had to lower the percent of precious metal in the currency and the value would immediately reflect that, but the debtors had to eat it.

        Never make a deal with the powerful, they are not to be trusted, as an ancient adage tells us.