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Nah that's pretty hot considering Orwell was a loving anti-communist
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 15:48 |
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orwell was good
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 15:48 |
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quote:One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. where’s the lie
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 15:51 |
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exmachina posted:Umm, that is an extremely tepid take Orwell was so "socialist" that he snitched to the cops and called Paul Robeson a reverse racist
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 15:53 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Orwell was so "socialist" that he snitched to the cops and called Paul Robeson a reverse racist who amongst us
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 16:26 |
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Didn't Orwell literally go kill fash in Spain? Like actually risk life and limb for the opportunity to shoot fascists?
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 17:30 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't Orwell literally go kill fash in Spain? Like actually risk life and limb for the opportunity to shoot fascists? In conclusion, Orwell was a land of contrasts.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 17:33 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't Orwell literally go kill fash in Spain? Like actually risk life and limb for the opportunity to shoot fascists? yes yes thats all fine and good but how pure was his posting? what did he think about ftv?
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 17:41 |
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Breakfast All Day posted:yes yes thats all fine and good but how pure was his posting? what did he think about ftv? Jimmy Dorwell
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 17:53 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Orwell was so "socialist" that he snitched to the cops and called Paul Robeson a reverse racist Stalin once made a pact with Hitler. Everyone goes through a phase is what I'm saying.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 17:57 |
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80% of the Nazis were killed when Stalin was President.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 18:17 |
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https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1358517876479639554
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 18:32 |
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He was a socialist but not a tankie. So yes, large swathes of C-SPAM are gonna hate him.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 18:32 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Orwell was so "socialist" that he snitched to the cops and called Paul Robeson a reverse racist well he was an anarchist
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 18:35 |
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Orwell was definitely not a communist, but the Jacobin article appears to only claim that Orwell was "on the left". the hot take in the last few posts is the notion that being anti-communist disqualifies you from being on the left.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 19:54 |
i think it's more the fact he collaborated with the security service
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 19:56 |
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exmarx posted:i think it's more the fact he collaborated with the security service that's fair, I need to go read up on the facts there
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 19:57 |
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Xpost from Idiots on Social Media, because it belongs here too. https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1358734165252976641 Not an xpost: https://twitter.com/RWPUSA/status/1358786147045023749
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 20:28 |
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Embroidering 'White Feminism' on a MyPillow
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 20:29 |
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the better parts of Orwell's work was anything he wrote about language, as he freely admitted that most words we have are derived from materialist descriptions and have no power of the spiritual in them like, it's hard to talk about a feeling or the shape of a thought without it dipping back into what can be felt and experienced with the five senses, but this is something more esoteric to begin with anyway
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 20:47 |
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exmarx posted:i think it's more the fact he collaborated with the security service
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 21:23 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Orwell was so "socialist" that he snitched to the cops and called Paul Robeson a reverse racist Look they're saying hes a socialist, not that he wasn't English
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 22:15 |
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The best part of Orwell list is his entry for Charlie Chaplin which simply says [jewish?]. Wasn't he also literally a colonist cop in Burma?
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 23:13 |
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man people loving lived back then
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 23:17 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1358437219107807233 remember when he said the dems wanted to wipe out 50k of student loan debt immediately, then in a few weeks it was 10k, and now it's just gone forever. lol. big leftward drift please knock Mom! posted:orwell was good for me to poop on
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 23:20 |
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https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1357575903593828353?s=19
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 01:42 |
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i flunked out posted:Wasn't he also literally a colonist cop in Burma? yes, but I think he later regarded that part of his life as an embarrassing misadventure
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 01:57 |
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He wrote Burmese Days very early in his career and while it is undoubtedly full of casual and outright racism, he acknowledges the corrupt power structures he his helping to set up and perpetuate for the Empire's interests. He said himself that Burma was a key step in his own radicalisation.
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 06:42 |
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Pirate Radar posted:yes, but I think he later regarded that part of his life as an embarrassing misadventure yes, an embarrassing misadventure, to reinforce imperial oppressive structures, that I've reformed from. anyway, let me just forward this list of communists to the police,
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 06:57 |
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i flunked out posted:The best part of Orwell list is his entry for Charlie Chaplin which simply says [jewish?]. quote:In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. When a nimble Burman tripped me up on the football field and the referee (another Burman) looked the other way, the crowd yelled with hideous laughter. This happened more than once. In the end the sneering yellow faces of young men that met me everywhere, the insults hooted after me when I was at a safe distance, got badly on my nerves. The young Buddhist priests were the worst of all. There were several thousands of them in the town and none of them seemed to have anything to do except stand on street corners and jeer at Europeans.
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 07:00 |
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indigi posted:remember when he said the dems wanted to wipe out 50k of student loan debt immediately, then in a few weeks it was 10k, and now it's just gone forever. lol. big leftward drift
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 07:01 |
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lol what a piece of poo poo
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 07:03 |
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indigi posted:lol what a piece of poo poo
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 07:13 |
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Taintrunner posted:80% of the Nazis were killed when Stalin was President. Exactly. It was a phase, and then he grew out of it and killed them all.
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 09:23 |
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Platystemon posted:But I could get nothing into perspective. I was young and ill-educated and I had had to think out my problems in the utter silence that is imposed on every Englishman in the East. I did not even know that the British Empire is dying, still less did I know that it is a great deal better than the younger empires that are going to supplant it.
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 09:28 |
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gently caress mr animal farm and his asskissers, ever wonder why his goddamn books are pushed constantly by all the wrong people "wow he wasn't one of those bad socialists he was one of the good ones...you know...the ones who lose!" a smug oval office, colonial cop, rapist racist antisemite, backstabber sellout to the loving INTELLIGENCE SERVICES, it's no wonder dsa-style libs love him
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 09:37 |
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in 1984 horny was prohibited really makes u think
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 09:55 |
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't Orwell literally go kill fash in Spain? Like actually risk life and limb for the opportunity to shoot fascists? Literally got shot in the neck while fighting fascists.
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 10:18 |
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A bunch of computer touchers and landlords on a doomer internet forum boasting about the depth and nuance of their working class appreciation
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 10:26 |
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Orange Devil posted:Literally got shot in the neck while fighting fascists. but he wrote a racist book, the stalinist will tell you
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 10:27 |