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A Badger

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11. "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--

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Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:41 AM

Aug 8

if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'”

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US to rewrite its past national climate reports [View all] progree Aug 7 OP

I hope the old reports are archived somewhere DBoon Aug 7 #1

NOAA sure sounds ultra-extreme, far-left-wing progree Aug 7 #5

only 3.5 years left, everything will be rewritten ala 1984 by then nt msongs Aug 7 #2

This erasing of history is pathetic and diabolical bucolic_frolic Aug 7 #3

Oh wow, talk about going down the memory hole... DSandra Aug 7 #4

Hopefully archive.org has this progree Aug 7 #6

Nothing ever "disappears" anymore. As someone said "The Web isn't the Library of Alexandria". Everything is everywhere. CincyDem Aug 7 #7

These are new numbers , totally new numbers , never been seen before numbers dweller Aug 7 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Blue Dotty Aug 7 #9

'Worst fears': Trump compared to Stalin for sabotaging decades of research progree Aug 8 #10

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-- A Badger Aug 8 #11