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Author Archives: Kirk Mahoney
Biden administration chose “Disinformation” over “Knowledge” when naming its Governance Board.
“Knowledge Governance Board” would have been just as descriptive as “Disinformation Governance Board” but with an initialism — KGB — too revealing about the Governance Board’s goals!
Twitter Employee States What Outsiders Already Knew
A Prison, No Matter What the Soviets Called It
Communists use words not only to obscure what they are doing but also to make others play catch-up with respect to what they are doing. For example, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in his book The Gulag Archipelago about how the Soviets had many names for prisons: Year after year other forms of existence for prisoners were also tried, …
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“Money for Nothing” is a motto of self-avowed Marxists.
Communists Hide the Truth with Euphemisms
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in his book The Gulag Archipelago about how the Soviets avoided the term prisoners: The population of Ryazan [the location of a concentration camp set up in a former nunnery (Kazansky)] was very sympathetic toward the deprivees, as they were called. (Officially they were called not prisoners but “persons deprived of freedom.”) The Gulag …
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