Body-Cam Footage Raises Familiar Concerns About BPD’s Plainclothes Unit - In May, a Baltimore detective pointed his service revolver to the temple of a prone and restrained man.

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 3 个月前

Body-Cam Footage Raises Familiar Concerns About BPD’s Plainclothes Unit - In May, a Baltimore detective pointed his service revolver to the temple of a prone and restrained man.

prole · 3 个月前

I don’t think I implied it’s anything new. Nor was I trying to say he predicted the future per se. It’s been years since I’ve read it, but I don’t think the section was just about newspeak. I didn’t mind that stuff.

I recall there being a whole section where he kind of steps away from the narrative for a bit and basically writes an essay about controlling people through language. I just remember being like “lol yeah right, controlling thoughts with language? Impossible and boring… bring back Winston” when I was in my teens.

Reading it again as an adult, it didn’t particularly ring true to me at the time either. It wasn’t until I experienced 2015-now that I thought back to it and recognized how wrong I was.

Body-Cam Footage Raises Familiar Concerns About BPD’s Plainclothes Unit - In May, a Baltimore detective pointed his service revolver to the temple of a prone and restrained man.

Body-Cam Footage Raises Familiar Concerns About BPD’s Plainclothes Unit - In May, a Baltimore detective pointed his service revolver to the temple of a prone and restrained man.

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