Responded to his shitty Biden Crackpipe meme with the :citations-needed: episode criticizing the Biden response to this absolute shitshow of racist misinformation. His initial response was “I don’t know what reality is anymore”. When I suggested it’s clearly not listening to :live-tucker-reaction: shit. He is like “but my property rights”.

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

      100% has never read the book. Given I owned a copy in high school and I’ve never seen him actually finish a book

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

        1984 is now a more apt description of capitalism than it ever was of communism. Everything Orwell was writing about in his fever dream of painting the soviets as big bad scaries he was describing late stage neoliberal capitalism in 2022.

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

          Mobs of people wanting to rewrite history to favor their preferred racist ideology. Capitalist surveillance in every goddamn device. The big bad police state disappearing and torturing people (like they did in Chicago, warehousing victims) and the federal govt. doing the same. Rats and snitches infiltrating resistance groups, or being led astray by :fedposting:, and the continued feeding of the war machine to avoid people basic decency.

          :1984:

        • Yurt_Owl
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          3 years ago

          When I was a kid I think I was the only one of my peers who read 1984 and attributed it to the system I lived under and not communism. As a result oddly enough it was the initial step of radicalising me lul.

          When I read animal farm in school my initial interpretation was also attributing it to capitalism.

        • UlyssesT
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          16 days ago

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          • NPa [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            fuck man, just take the engagement-maximizing algorithms on social media, amplifying negative emotions because they drive engagement the most.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The only people who misunderstand George Orwell’s 1984 are those that go around trying to imagine it has a leftist message. It is mistaken to imagine that children in the English-speaking world get his work drilled into them like a mantra because, somehow, genuine socialists managed to sneak his work past a censor that banishes the likes of Karl Marx and Malcolm X.

      The less complicated reading is the correct one: it’s an anti-communist book that the establishment pushes, and the right adores and cites constantly, because it is effective anti-communist propaganda.

      Let’s part from a very basic fact: The CIA loves Orwell.

      Between 1952 and 1957, from three sites in West Germany, a CIA operation codenamed ‘Aedinosaur’ launched millions of ten-foot balloons carrying copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and dropped them over Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia — whose airforces were ordered to shoot the balloons down. [1]

      The movie adaptation of Animal Farm was the UK’s first animated feature film, and it was entirely funded by the CIA. This fact was kept secret for 20 years, and only revealed in 1974, to no cultural impact. [2]

      Orwell enthusiasts insist that he would be horrified by this turn of events, that he was trying to preserve a genuine and humane socialism from the clutches of “Stalinism”. They insist Orwell was against all empires, not just the one he lived in. However, his life and his work rather undermine this interpretation.

      from https://redsails.org/on-orwell/

      • bewts [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I read it in like freshman year with zero real political knowledge. Got through the entire thing and at the end I had to turn to the smart girl in class and ask her who TF "the proles" are. It really doesn't give a shit about class - and especially if you read the book with no class consciousness its just going to make you into a "goberment bad" Ayn Rand libertarian. I remember people talking about Orwell being CIA before but good post.

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I had a fucking college history professor make the class read 1984 for an upper-level class. Embarrassing.

          EDIT: actually that fucker made us read two Orwell books (I forget the other one), and specifically peddled "red fascist" bullshit on the basis of an Orwell quote that asserted it.

        • riley
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          1 year ago

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    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Stop saying

      Wow. Telling people they shouldn't say something? This is literally :19::84: