We all recall that in order for there to be official disinformation or misinformation, there must necessarily exist Official Truths.
And if there are Official Truths there must necessarily exist an agency or agencies tasked with providing, maintaining, and distributing these Official Truths.
It is also so, and quite obvious, that official disinformation does not have to be false, and Official Truths do not have to be true.
Here from earlier in the week is New Zealand’s elected, and re-elected, leader at the UN calling for the strengthening of Official Truth agencies, and for censoring official disinformation.
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1575002436808298501
She has a way of speaking like she is always on the verge of tears. It’s an effective gag. How can we not give a crying woman what she wants? Let’s let government censor all its opposition and put a smile back on Jacinda’s attractive face!
“How do you tackle climate change if people don’t believe it exists?” she asked.
Of course, she means by “climate change” not a changing climate—because a changing climate by itself is not of interest. She means the “solutions” she and Experts want to impose on us. It is those most do not “believe in”.
How much easier would it be to impose those “solutions” by, in effect, outlawing their criticism? Or at least making that criticism difficult to spread. She wants a coordinated effort at both censorship and promulgating Official Truths:
But what if that lie [official disinformation], told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?
This is no longer a hypothetical. The weapons of war have changed, they are upon us and require the same level of action and activity that we put into the weapons of old.
We recognized the threats that the old weapons created. We came together as communities to minimize these threats. We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties – rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges.
This is a happy message. Not to us, but to the UN delegates. It tells Experts they are needed, and badly.
If Jacinda gets what she wants, she might not love it, though. Putting a bureaucracy as large and staid as the UN in charge of propaganda is more likely to generate rich comedy than stifle the flow of information.
The agency she has in mind isn’t needed. The woke are, and have been, doing fine without it.
Can we get a follow up on this one? pic.twitter.com/NyOAcYRVfT
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 27, 2022
The tweet preceding Miller’s fun reminder said “Read more about our efforts to disrupt a Chinese influence operation focused on US domestic politics ahead off the midterms and an unconnected Russian operation focused on the war in Ukraine.”
See? Facebook is, and has been, doing a terrific job throttling official disinformation, and, we must assume, touting Official Truths. The UN just isn’t needed.
Of course, the UN could hire Facebook, like the American government did (remember how Zuckerberg was visited pre-election by the not-so-secret police?). But the union would produce tepid water. So perhaps it should be encouraged. The existence of the Ministry of Truth would quiet the mothering urges of people like Jacinda. She could rest feeling she has done enough. And we could enjoy the UN’s efforts, which would as comical as a man wearing a $39.99 toupee trying to sell us a used car sitting on a pool of oil.
Something like this:
After the US destroyed the pipelines there was radio silence as the regime was trying to determine their narrative. This delay caused a Polish official to publicly thank the US for the attack.
Then word went out yesterday to deny the attack. The NATO propaganda bots are out. pic.twitter.com/RboCLPTkBy
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) September 29, 2022
A better approach is being taken by the Land of Bans, California. Experts are pushing a Assembly Bill 2098, which
would empower the Medical Board of California to go after the licenses of physicians who disseminate “misinformation” or “disinformation” regarding Covid-19. The bill in its latest iteration defines misinformation as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care.” The inscrutability of this definition lies at the core of the bill’s opponents concerns.
This is brilliant. If a doctor speaks at variance to Official Truths, the government will pull his license, and presto!, he’s no longer a doctor.
Don’t forget how Expert Consensuses are built. The government supports the scientists who push the line the government wants. These scientists become Experts, and their opinion becomes Consensus, a.k.a. The Science. The Consensus quickly gathers support because scientists are just as susceptible as everybody else at following fads.
The government can use this trick wherever licenses are required to operate, or government grants are necessary for jobs (like at universities). This leaves some freedom, areas where cracking down would have to be much harsher.
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We have one planet and right now it seems to be run by hand-wringing old ladies of all genders. My suggestion? That they stay home and pet their cats and leave the rest of us alone. And **** their electric cars. When the time is right electric cars will take over like gasoline vehicles took over from horses after private enterprise paved the way. Putting a time stamp on it for political reasons will be a trainwreck of epic proportions. I will be taking names of everyone who pushed this crap-show. They will be reminded in due time.
”And we could enjoy the UN’s efforts, which would as comical as a man wearing a $39.99 toupee trying to sell us a used car sitting on a pool of oil.”
Funny image; now imagine toupee dude is trying to sell us a used Empire sitting in a pool of blood, and, incredibly, there’s a line of dopes out the door eager to buy. Crazy comedy.
.”….and put a smile back on Jacinda’s attractive face!” You must be joking, Briggs.
When I have nightmares it is always being eaten alive by those teeth.
As always, they project.
How do we get “official truths” in the first place? By having a “lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms”. They do not bother in arguing for their lies, they simply make sure that every “reputable source” repeats the party line until the sheer number of times it has been said becomes evidence for the “truth.”
Leftist politicians openly call for violence against political opponents, and even in this very speech by framing the matter in terms of a war the New Zealand PM invites violence against those using the “weapon” of “disinformation.” That is, a major purpose for the false “official truths” is so that the lie “prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms.” It’s always better for them to have an Antifa, BLM or other convenient idiot to do their dirty work for them, using the motivations that they supplied.
My point is not to say that the left are hypocrites. They are, but they don’t care at all about being hypocrites so the observation is not helpful. The point is that since they love to project you can always find their motivations and plans by seeing what they say about us.
Honours graduate of the Klaus Schwab school.
When the time is right electric cars will take over like gasoline vehicles took over from horses after private enterprise paved the way.
Doubt it. There have been electric cars around as long as there have been gasoline cars. They’ve always been inferior. Batteries are a crappy way to power a car compared to immediately-fillable fuels.
CLIMATE CHANGE broke down my door, KICKED my dog in the face, SHOT my wife, then RAPED my daughter… But WORST OF ALL, it used a POOR & HELPLESS black man to do it!
Re electric cars. What many have forgotten or never knew is that electric cars were built early on and competed with external combustion steam driven ones and internal combustion ones. The internal combustion ones won, due to economics, as Cloudbuster said.
What’s even more despicable about it is that the Official Truth changes weekly, in total contradiction to the old Official Truth. Masks work, then they don’t, then they do. We have always been at war with Eastasia, etc.
Society also has another giv/corpo department and list…
OFFICIAL APPROPRIATE JOKES AND BEHAVIOUR
Here is an update:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/apple-vp-procurement-fired-after-joke-about-fondling-breasts-goes-viral-tiktok
Remember clowns, no joking, even when quoting Hollywood scripture.
Or if you can’t help it and absolutely must make up fictional heterosexual escapades for a laugh, protect yourself by always adding at the end, “… just like the President of the United States,Joe Biden, and his crackhead son, Hunter.” That way, the media and your employer will bury the entire incident as efficiently as possible, thus aiding in your escape.
I would also like to fund the kickstarter so that the following quote can be beautifully carved onto Occasional Cortex’s grave, on behalf of the Official Truths Ministry.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-yet-another-democrat-witness-claims-biological-men-can-have-pregnancies
Jeremias 30…This is the word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: [2] Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write thee all the words that I have spoken to thee, in a book. [3] For behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. [4] And these are the words that the Lord hath spoken to Israel and to Juda: [5] For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.
[6] Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow?
Uncle Mike: What’s even more despicable about it is that the Official Truth changes weekly, in total contradiction to the old Official Truth. Masks work, then they don’t, then they do. We have always been at war with Eastasia, etc.
Actually, Uncle Mike, it demonstrates how “official truth” can be pushed back by a ‘free’ internet which Jacinda hates. Even though it’s a hierarchy, it helps when the hierarchy doesn’t have to retruth.
“She has a way of speaking like she is always on the verge of tears. It’s an effective gag. How can we not give a crying woman what she wants?”
Crying is a form of female sign language for “please slap me now!”
I have a sister-in-law who broke down in tears after I very politely refused to agree with her about Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. Result? I was the Bad Guy because vagina.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Imagine Jacinda’s shoe stomping on your face – forever.
Will all the hipster climate protectors change their minds if their fancy cellular phones must sporadically cease working to save the planet?
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/gone-30-minutes-next-europes-doomsday-list-collapse-cell-phone-networks
And least we forget… the Witch of the WEF’s text messages with Pfizer’s CEO mysteriously disappeared… do our texts disappear? And why can’t they be retrieved from the many Ursula-tool surveillance programs that conveniently store everything?
Pfizer CEO Bails On EU Testimony After Report Highlights ‘Secretive’ Vaccine Deal
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-ceo-bails-eu-testimony-after-report-highlights-secretive-vaccine-deal
FDA Withholding Autopsy Results On People Who Died After Getting COVID-19 Vaccines
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-withholding-autopsy-results-people-who-died-after-getting-covid-19-vaccines
The Chinese Covid philosophy (zero Covid) espousing bot — Xicenda. Only if she looked a bit more oriental (OMG can I say that? I think I can because of brow intersectionality) Eric Swawell would be leering.
re: “Batteries are a crappy way to power a car compared to immediately-fillable fuels.”
You’re assuming batteries, and with that come an extremely high likelihood, that you’d be wrong. I would add more, but, it would require one to have both a physical-chemistry and atomic physics background to fully comprehend (let alone “believe”) in one sitting …
re: “PM Jacinda Ardern calls internet freedom …”
AT LEAST we are beyond that “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” thing.
Or are we?