Areljak

Areljak t1_jb1tz9c wrote

Reply to comment by Ligma_Bowels in Dozens of Israeli reserve pilots ditch drill to protest judicial overhaul by Dirty_Quesadilla

There are many potential reasons for something like this, including the military (or parts of it) developing its own political ambitions, being beholden to another power in some manner or seeing itself in a role which might require disobedience under certain circumstances... To name a few.

In this case it would be a sign of grassroots opposition to the ambitions of the ruling coalition.

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Areljak t1_j1pwxw3 wrote

Reply to comment by Secret_Detective3255 in Astronaut Peggy Whitson in the Festive Spirit 2016 by Aeromarine_eng

Which sadly let to NASA making such costumes part of their PR which takes away all the creativity of it.

Hell, I'm guessing this was organized in a similar way.

Scott Kelly wrote in Endurance about, at the end of the his year in space, having to take a while bunch of Fotos of him in the cupola with all sorts of different shirts on to essentially create PR pics for organisations he is associated with. IIRC he was in that mentioned gorilla clip on an earlier ISS mission of his.

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Areljak t1_it8w2vd wrote

Reply to comment by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS in Does 1984 ever dive into how the Party took control over Oceania? [no direct spoilers please] by INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

Its pretty directly referencing Stalinism and applying it to the UK, some examples:

  • 2+2=5 was a stalinist propaganda slogan

  • The 180° turns in foreign policy and propaganda mirror similar turns in Soviet propaganda from being anti-german then suddenly pro-german following the signing to the Molotov-Ribbentrov pact to then switching suddenly back to anti-german following the German invasion in 1941.

  • The omnipresent Big Brother mirrors Stalin (although Hitler wasnot dissimilar)

  • Goldstein is Trotsky

...I recommend reading 1984 and then reading Child of the Revolution by Wolfgang Loenhard, an autobiographical account from a then young German on the periphery of party politics in the Soviet Union 1938-45 (before going back to Germany to build up the GDR to be to his defection in 1949), its a long book but well worth the read.

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