Memory-Holing January 6

Monday, February 10, 2025

ProPublica's Alec MacGillis writes about what happens when you try to make history vanish: This push to whitewash recent history carries a disconcerting echo of countless autocratic regimes, from the Chinese Communist Party's memory-holing of the Tiananmen Square massacre to the Argentine military junta's "disappearing" of dissidents in the 1970s.

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The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America's troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) February 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-10 05:54 PM | Reply

Putin's putrid orange bitch claims the ------------, cop-killing vermin he pardoned for J6 were actually victims of assault.

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#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-11 02:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No surprises about memory washing as this tactic is straight out of the totalitarian's playbook. But unlike Saddam Hussein who just wanted to survive, Dotard Trumpf and Felon Musk want more than regime survival. The dastardly duo are taking America into a dystopian combination of Brave New World (where the oligarchs and techno-fascists are the Alphas), 1984 (the Jan 6 "thugs have always been patriots" as we see), and "Skynet", a government controlled by AI thru DOGE. Musk is already working on the AI robots.

How much progress will Trumpf and Musk have in four years?

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-11 03:42 AM | Reply

Libs just can't help themselves, they just live in the past. How did that work out for you in the last election?

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-02-11 03:31 PM | Reply

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#5 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-11 03:38 PM | Reply

Libs just can't help themselves, they just live in the past. How did that work out for you in the last election?

#4 | POSTED Fishpoo

All that proves is that standing up for what is right does not always win elections and lying does.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-11 04:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1