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Originally Posted by Billy L-bach
Folks just need to embrace the correct side of the political spectrum. You right wingers simply don't get it.
...how many fingers am I holding up?
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Billy,
2 +2 = 5
SnT
Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare "two plus two equals five" as a fact; he ponders whether, if everybody believes it, does that make it true?
Lord Byron to his soon-to-be wife Anabella Milbanke in which he writes, "I know that two and two make four—& should be glad to prove it too if I could—though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, the protagonist implicitly supports the idea of two times two making five, spending several paragraphs considering the implications of rejecting the statement "two times two makes four."
Joseph Stalin announced that the plan would be completed in four years.Propagandist Iakov Guminer supported this campaign with a 1931 poster reading "2+2=5:
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who once, in a debatably hyperbolic display of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, declared, "If the Führer wants it, two and two makes five!