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bad_haircut72 • today at 6:49 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The words are actually extremely clear and its exceptionally prudent to quote them, because nobody with a brain can read them and fail see that the government is simply being unconstitutional - all over the place. Even when the people are powerless, we dont have to give up our powers of seeing the truth. Your post and this whole idea that "the words dont mean what they say they mean" is frankly doublespeak of the lowest form.

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robocat • today at 10:08 PM

  The term doublespeak derives from two concepts in 1984 ("doublethink" and "Newspeak") despite the term itself not being used in the novel. [edited]
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak

I just bought a cheap 1984 to masochistically read again.

petesergeant • today at 6:59 PM

> we dont have to give up our powers of seeing the truth

The truth is that the constitution is interpreted by humans in a common law context, and enforced by the apparatus of state, which has the means to impose its will. Calling this doublespeak is weird.

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cindyllm • today at 7:45 PM

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