I was bored and decided to browse Imgflip and I found a meme where they claim George Orwell was a socialist. Some of you probably know that Imgflip's comment section is filled with rabid reactionaries and libs who refuse to read.

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I'm only posting it here is because now I had enough of this person and I just want your take on this, fellow hexbearers.

  • DirtyPair [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    isn't imgflip just an image macro creator? I didn't even realise it had a comment section

    checks out that it'd be full of chuds, though gulag

    • DanComrd [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      I need my small doses of absolute vile reactionary toxin exposure every now and then otherwise I start believing that the internet is a really nice place to be on. agony

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Orwell was a, or at least claimed to be, a socialist. However he was a fancy-lad western chauvinist socialist who not only never accomplished anything for anyone, but also sold out his own comrades.

    It is incredibly telling that his future dystopia far more resembles the modern American state than the Soviet Union even at the height of Stalin's paranoia, and mostly engenders a sense of misplaced 'anti-authoritarianism'. It is truly some of the best propaganda because it feels true but leads you in the completely wrong direction.

  • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    fake leftists were betraying each other

    lmao so close

    rat-salute to our posters in the mines like Domconscious there

    • DanComrd [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      I'm ashamed to admit but that's my account that I created back in 2016 when I was in college a-guy

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    An important part of maintaining the coherence and identity of a cult is to occasionally interact with the hostility of the outside world. Or, in this case, Liberals.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Just because Orwell was a Trotskyite and a snitch doesnt mean he wasn't a socialist. Trotskyites are by definition socialists just like MLMs, Hoxhoaists or Syndicalists. And even Rosa snitched on of her rival party members to the Okhrana. Its just a matter of did you like who they snitched on or not.

    • spectre [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Politics is not a battle between good and evil, it's a matter of getting shit done, hopefully mostly good shit ofc.

  • whogivesashit@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    Can't even attempt to engage with sources. Just looks up the domain on his favorite media bias analyzer site and decides if it's an approved source or not.

    • DanComrd [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Exactly that's what was more rage inducing to me. He just went "nuh uhh, source is bad" finger-wag

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, Orwell gets taught here a lot at highschool level as a "don't believe government/socialists" brainworm

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    i too love to write a scathing takedown of a country, that i have never visited, and basically just describe it as the UK but "Stalinist"

    Orwell? More like Orwont, lmao got em sicko-jammin

    • DanComrd [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Orwell really could have used the opportunity to call him Joe Steel in his books. sadness

  • huf [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    the snitching was his redemption arc after being a colonial policeman...