• arankays@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    “may become”

    Dude it already is a fascist dictatorship. People are getting unalived and disappearing for their opinions.

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        5 days ago

        “Unalived” might be a euphemism that’s only necessary on certain social media to avoid censorship nowadays, but people were using the term “disappearing” (especially as a transitive verb) during Chile’s Pinochet regime, if not earlier.

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        Unalive and disappear don’t change the meaning of the thought, and they circumvent ideological restrictions that intent to restrict thought. This is opposite the effect of newspeak.