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Re:21st-century editors should keep their hands off of 20th-... by NoRelToEmber on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:07PM (#36301141)
This is an extremely common type of reply: Refusing to condemn something as wrong, on the basis that it's hard to write a good law that would fix it.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten [1], every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

[1] But originals are still kept in archives, and available upon request, so it's okay! Only a negligible number of people will bother so they may as well not exist, but it's okay!

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Re:21st-century editors should keep their hands off of 20th-... by TeMPOraL on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:00PM (#36301860)
> But originals are still kept in archives, and available upon request, so it's okay!

You'd wish. In reality, custodians of each archive assumed that there are still copies in the other archives, and trashed most of the works to save money, without realizing the other archives were doing the same thing to those same works.

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