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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 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".

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It'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""" '

The "United" State of America

Pravda!

I also present to you CNN, "The Most Trusted Name In News."

I'm not sure how this is correlated at all to what the person you're responding to said.

Yes you do.

I think it's because trust in CNN is evaporating.

You 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?

> 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."

Tag lines != Names

Fox News: "Fair and balanced"

To be fair to them, they stopped using that tagline in 2017.

and started using "Then, Now, Together, Forever".

Or maybe that was the WWE, who can tell them apart.

Another one: Carlsberg, probably the best beer in the world.

Can you share some examples of atrocities CNN has committed that are of the same vein as Nazi Germany and North Korea?

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