good post

https://twitter.com/BadEmpanada/status/1661212920938737665

  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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    2 years ago

    Lmfao this is such a good essay, starts off like one of those late 20th century communist tracts and am currently at the middle where the internet language appears, 10/10 never expected to see the words "crab bucket" or "cope" in a communist essay.

    Triumphant, handsome, charismatic, “alpha” men

    Holy shit there's even a reference to Chad.

    These days Orwell’s reputation among socialists is in well-deserved shambles. Invocations of the specter of his memory as some kind of aspirational revolutionary ideal — as a staunch opponent of “totalitarianism” — are increasingly buried under citations proving he was in fact a colonial cop, a rapist, a snitch, a racist, a proud Englishman, and so on

    Based author