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Trump erases 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps history (www.advocate.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They cried about history being erased when confederate monuments came down and now they’re silent about actually erasing the history of United States soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line. This involves revising newspaper articles and doctoring photographs—mostly to remove "unpersons", people who have fallen afoul of the party.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Smith_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)