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[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If the Chinese do it is double plus ungood but if the west does it, it is by definition, double plus good. Thank you fellow pleb for teaching me this understanding. I'm double plus looking forward to the 2 minutes of hate this morning.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Double plus” good? What kind of nonsense is this?

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's Newspeak from Orwell's 1984:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Prefixes

It's purposefully stupid.

I personally use it to highlight issues on China. It seems to me that, like the Conservative/Liberal Party divide, the The West/China divide is more a "it's good if my side does it but bad when my opponent does it".

Use of Newspeak high lights this obserdity by replacing good with good and bad with ungood (i.e. not-good or opposite of good)

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s not good if anyone does it.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's my point though. It isn't good if anyone does it. Doesn't matter the country, party of political ideology.

Why be upset at China if we're doing it as well? At least we have control over our laws, not China's.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why be upset? Wow… it’s people like you who made this timeline.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

What do you mean?