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@freepatriot

He wrote it in 1948, having already seen the French and Bolshevik revolutions go that way.

Ingsoc = English Socialism = basically our mixed economy civil rights regime.

I feel like this picture...
@MasterSimper

... is the visual equivalent of a MIXED METAPHOR.

@Humpleupagus @freepatriot

The whole country is going to be Detroit, and I get to shoot every nigger on-sight? Cackles has my vote.

Many people have joked that Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual, but now it’s not a joke.

Orwell’s cautionary warning about authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and the suppression of free speech through the use of propaganda, censorship, and threat of imprisonment and torture, has come to fruition, especially since the Party’s rollout of the covid plandemic in 2020.

Many people have joked that Orwell’s 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual, but now it’s not a joke.

Orwell’s cautionary warning about authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and the suppression of free speech through the use of propaganda, censorship, and threat of imprisonment and torture, has come to fruition, especially since the Party’s rollout of the covid plandemic in 2020.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

Americans think living in a socialist police state is normal, but freedom is not some textbook theory.

There are still some Americans alive today who will tell you that freedom is better.

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