{"id":16287,"date":"2020-01-22T01:44:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16287"},"modified":"2020-01-22T01:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:44:38","slug":"orwellian-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/22\/orwellian-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the novel \u201c1984\u201d, a character declared that sometimes two plus two equaled five, sometimes two plus two equaled three, and sometimes it is both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s no way in real life that anyone would argue that you could get two different results that are equally valid from the same equation, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;About that\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Both answers are equally correct&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fuck you <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E4sbP43Bpa\">pic.twitter.com\/E4sbP43Bpa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fetusberry\u300cbribpt\u2122\u300dCrunch (@Fetusberry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fetusberry\/status\/1218811265675493376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And people wonder why public schools are such a disaster\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16288\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Yakov_Guminer_-_Arithmetic_of_a_counter-plan_poster_1931.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Yakov_Guminer_-_Arithmetic_of_a_counter-plan_poster_1931.jpg 723w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Yakov_Guminer_-_Arithmetic_of_a_counter-plan_poster_1931-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Yakov_Guminer_-_Arithmetic_of_a_counter-plan_poster_1931-704x1024.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eqally-Correct-Math.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eqally-Correct-Math.jpg 800w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eqally-Correct-Math-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eqally-Correct-Math-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Orwellian Mathamatics\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In the novel '1984', a character declared that sometimes two plus two equaled five, sometimes two plus two equaled three, and sometimes it is both at the same time.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Eqally-Correct-Math.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the novel \u201c1984\u201d, a character declared that sometimes two plus two equaled five, sometimes two plus two equaled three, and sometimes it is both at the same time. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But there\u2019s no way in real life that anyone would argue &hellip; 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