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Tell me that you are incapable of doing a modicum of scholarly research on a topic without telling me, but you still like to shoot internet memes without knowledge of the facts.

Irrespective of your adorable opinion and use of internet memes, it is a fact that control of language is a staple feature of fascism.

There are entire books dedicated to these fascist practices:

https://fee.org/articles/would-be-tyrants-capture-language-to-control-thought/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02773945.2021.1972134

https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/news-and-events/news/2019/using-language-as-a-weapon-how-mussolini-used-lati.html

https://rome.nd.edu/assets/280454/katie_galioto.pdf

....and many, many, many more.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

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A Grumpy Computer Scientist
A Grumpy Computer Scientist

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UK-based AI professor interested in AI, mind, science, rationality, digital culture and innovation. Hobbies: incessantly fighting nonsense.

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