{"id":15593,"date":"2025-06-15T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15593"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:57:47","slug":"what-a-fine-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15593","title":{"rendered":"What a Fine fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1948 dystopian novel, <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, George Orwell introduces the concept of Newspeak, a new of language, which is defined as follows, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newspeak\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person&#8217;s ability for critical thinking. The Newspeak language thus limits the person&#8217;s ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will, which are thoughtcrimes, acts of personal independence that contradict the ideological orthodoxy of Ingsoc collectivism.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Talking about a limited or non-existent ability for critical thinking, it&#8217;s time to introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randy_Fine\">Rep. Randy Fine<\/a>, the Republican Party&#8217;s representative for Florida&#8217;s 6th congressional district, in whom the capacity for critical thinking is completely lacking, as shown by his social media activity earlier in the week and the following post in particular.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/randy_fine.jpg\" alt=\"I want to congratulate @Israel on its mostly peaceful bombing of Iran.\" width=\"600\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/randy_fine.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/randy_fine-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Peaceful bombing, Congressman?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Yes, of course it was peaceful, Randy; there was absolutely no bloodshed and flowers bloomed where the bombs fell.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Rep. Fine&#8217;s Wikipedia entry also reveals he is an Islamophobe, racist, gun rights supporter, cheerleader for the genocidal Israeli state (<em>he called Ireland antisemitic for its recognition of Palestine in 2024. Ed.<\/em>) and, last but not least, homophobic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Randy Fine reminds your correspondent of another very pertinent quotation from Orwell&#8217;s novel, i.e.:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>Have a nice day!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1948 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell introduces the concept of Newspeak, a new of language, which is defined as follows, according to Wikipedia. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[36,16,10,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-15593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15593\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}