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If you look at the official names for countries you notice some trends. One of them is that use of the words "People's" and "Democratic" in the country name ten
by jmyeet 5y ago
If you look at the official names for countries you notice some trends. One of them is that use of the words "People's" and "Democratic" in the country name tend to indicate a brutal dictatorship. Examples:
- GDR: German Democratic Republic (ie East Germany). Totalitarian state.
- PRC: People's Republic of China. Also autocratic.
- DPRK: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ie North Korea). This one is a two-fer and definitely a brutal dictatorship.
With all that being said, I present to you "Truth Social".
- gjsman-1000 5y agoI also present to you CNN, "The Most Trusted Name In News."
- lghh 5y agoI'm not sure how this is correlated at all to what the person you're responding to said.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoYes you do.
- robertlagrant 5y agoI think it's because trust in CNN is evaporating.
- lghh 5y agoYou can't just respond to something unrelated and say "trust in CNN is evaporating" or whatever the parent comment was going. What does that have to do with Trump's new social media thing using the more dictatorial names for countries?
- robertlagrant 5y ago> What does that have to do with Trump's new social media thing using the more dictatorial names for countries? It's not this. It's that the names are ironic: - GDR: German Democratic Republic (ie East Germany). Totalitarian state. - PRC: People's Republic of China. Also autocratic. - DPRK: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (ie North Korea). This one is a two-fer and definitely a brutal dictatorship. - Truth Social And so the above poster's point was that this is also ironic: - CNN, "The Most Trusted Name In News."
- zaphod12 5y agoTag lines != Names
- jmyeet 5y agoFox News: "Fair and balanced"
- gjsman-1000 5y agoTo be fair to them, they stopped using that tagline in 2017.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoand started using "Then, Now, Together, Forever". Or maybe that was the WWE, who can tell them apart.
- soco 5y agoAnother one: Carlsberg, probably the best beer in the world.
- seattle_spring 5y agoCan you share some examples of atrocities CNN has committed that are of the same vein as Nazi Germany and North Korea?
- simonh 5y agoPravda!
- TremendousJudge 5y agoIt's something that should be called "The advertising law of opposites" or something. It extends to more than just countries to many slogans, such as Facebook's current 'Move fast """together""" '
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- dariusj18 5y agoThe "United" State of America