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PuckSR t1_itm4ly1 wrote
Reply to Are typos supposed to be so common in books? Or am I just ending up getting poorly edited ones? by rabidpiano86
It tends to happen more with fantasy, which are the books you've included. Why?
Well, because the list of unrecognized words in a fantasy book is WAY LONGER than the list of unrecognized words in an autobiography. So, you can't really use a quick spell check as easily.
Heck, some books like Mieville's Kraken are written in such an esoteric style, I don't even know if you'd recognize an error.
PuckSR t1_itm1aex wrote
Reply to comment by 5-On-A-Toboggan in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
You are proposing that an unpopular dictator who was literally stabbed by a throng of people may have been killed secretly by proxies of the US govt?
Not following the theory. So, they could have just told about a million different people where he was located and they would have tried to kill him. But that isn't exactly assassination.
PuckSR t1_itlzr8h wrote
Reply to comment by 5-On-A-Toboggan in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
I mean, there is a video. I dont see any US military operators
PuckSR t1_itlyh8g wrote
Reply to comment by 5-On-A-Toboggan in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
We assassinated Gaddafi in your mind?
PuckSR t1_itld07k wrote
Reply to comment by 5-On-A-Toboggan in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
The prohibition is against assassinations: e.g. killing legitimate political leaders.
Osama bin Laden was very clearly not a political leader and killing him did not constitute an assassination.
PuckSR t1_itbv4wc wrote
Reply to comment by AllAboutDumplings in TIL that in 2005 burglars stole $71.6 million from a bank in Fortaleza, Brazil by setting up a fake landscaping company near the bank and digging a 256ft tunnel beneath two city blocks to the bank over 3 months. Neighbors noticed vanloads of soil removed daily but assumed it was business-related. by Lagavulin16_neat
Or that old movie with the Rat Pack where they are all former military
PuckSR t1_it9p714 wrote
Reply to comment by PaxNova in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
We are agreeing, but I am trying to make the point that "crying wolf" would have been appropriate if it had been saved for Trump.
Additionally, I think that some of the older generation could NEVER see it as appropriate because unless the person is advocating for the extermination of an entire race, then they are nothing like Hitler
PuckSR t1_it9isv9 wrote
Reply to comment by PaxNova in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
But those attacks seem to all be Hitler=evil type.
PuckSR t1_it9btet wrote
Reply to comment by PaxNova in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
But the comparison is somewhat apt. Hitler used "Jews, gays, and communists" as his scapegoats. While Trump used "the politically correct woke mob, the mexicans, etc" as his scapegoats.
Both Hitler and Trump threw out a ton of legislation without any explicit policy behind it with the intent of attacking those groups with which they disagreed.
I get your concern, but I dont exactly remember a lot of people saying that Bush was acting like Hitler.
PuckSR t1_it9aggb wrote
Reply to comment by Alemusanora in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Going back and reading, we can see that McCarthy violated the civil rights of hundred of Americans.
There is absolutely nothing in the constitution that says you can punish someone for their political ideology, and quite a lot in the Constitution that forbids the govt from punishing someone for their political ideology.
PuckSR t1_it96a7g wrote
Reply to comment by PaxNova in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
The implication is that a Hitler-esque populist movement can quickly turn violent and ugly. See "the third wave".
It isn't just the populism, but using the same levers and toolbox as Hitler. Nationalism, patriotism, populism aren't necessarily bad, but if you use them the way Hitler used them? If you create a cult of personality around yourself, invoke a mythical (and non-existent) past glory to which we should return? If you single out groups as scapegoats? Blame modern culture for all of the problems?
Now you aren't just a populist. You are basically borrowing Hitler's playbook.
PuckSR t1_it91xid wrote
Reply to comment by dillrepair in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
The biggest generational divide between boomers and millennials I've noticed is the "The third wave experiment".
Millennials all learned in school that fanatical authoritarian govts can appear anywhere.(1984, McCarthyism, Nazism, The Third Wave experiment movie, etc) Heck, they even use USA McCarthyism as an example of it almost happening in the USA. Boomers just learned that Nazis were evil scum and it clearly must have been because of the moral failings of the German people.
This also drives a lot of the "Trump=Hitler" debate. When a millenial says that Trump is acting like Hitler, they mean that Trump is using a lot of the same populist tactics that Hitler used. When a boomer hears that comment, they assume that the person is trying to simply say Trump is evil. It leads to numerous thanksgiving day arguments where some old Uncle tries to lecture the young kids about how Trump isn't trying to murder anyone.
1984 was an attempt to highlight the concept for the boomer generation, but I think many of them missed the message.
edit:expanded on the initial idea
PuckSR t1_is84gmm wrote
Reply to comment by raichiha in Even Google's Own Staff Thinks 'Incognito Mode' Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be | Internal communications show employees joking about Incognito's abilities with one comparing it to "Guy Incognito" from The Simpsons by Hrmbee
It does two things: it starts a new window without history AND it creates a new browser that is missing all cookies, settings, etc from your normal session.
This has made the feature incredibly useful for people who work with webpages. If I am ever having a problem with a webpage, I always open it in incognito
PuckSR t1_itmkswp wrote
Reply to comment by 5-On-A-Toboggan in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
yeah and?