• Flaps [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bruh something like

    we are not your enemy. We are the thin blue line. And WE ARE the only thing standing between order and anarchy

    sounds like something that would be blasted through speakers during a foreign occupation, or the speech of some lunatics with guns wandering around the post apocalyptic plains.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Hate to bring him up, but it's actually pretty Orwellian. Shame Orwellian now means when China censors video games and not this kind of blatant propaganda.

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        now you can't point out actual Orwellianism because of all the bad faith people who called everything Orwellian.

        Kind of like how you can't point out actual nazis because allegedly somebody misidentified a nazi once.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          can’t point out actual nazis

          No one actually cares if you do this in my experience. One of my coworkers is a Nazi and I pointed it out and literally only one of my coworkers cares and that's because she's Jewish and has personally been harassed by him multiple times

          • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            but if you do on the internet, which is leaking into IRL, you get this: https://old.reddit.com/r/SmugIdeologyMan/comments/aoe0pj/old_but_gold/

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If these fuckers are what stands against anarchy, maybe we should all give anarchy a try.