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A lot of AR15's are sold in America. The buyers of these guns are desperate for a """legit""" reason to shoot other humans with them, preferably minorities. I guess shooting paper targets at a range doesn't get their dicks hard any more.
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Mr Interweb posted:https://twitter.com/aliceandrow/status/1282809991351734275 When I'm god-emperor, anyone who uses the phrase "some are more equal than other" or "its a brave new world, innit?" would have to write at least two sides of A4 explaining what they understand those words to mean, and how they are applicable to the current situation. They're the worst kind of thought-terminating cliche. They're not evenly overly-reductive like most cliches, they just say "thing bad" and stop the conversation.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:When I'm god-emperor, anyone who uses the phrase "some are more equal than other" or "its a brave new world, innit?" would have to write at least two sides of A4 explaining what they understand those words to mean, and how they are applicable to the current situation. They're the worst kind of thought-terminating cliche. They're not evenly overly-reductive like most cliches, they just say "thing bad" and stop the conversation. drat bro that sounds like something straight out of 1984
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:drat bro that sounds like something straight out of 1984 It's a double-plus ungood new world, innit?
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I wouldn’t hate the world so much if we had Soma
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I read that Animal Farm thread, which is infuriating of course, and he said something I see a lot from these types of guys, "I'm not saying capitalism shouldn't have some elements of socialism in there, but..." I've even seen one guy refer to himself as "capitalist-socialist", which I guess means "Scandinavian" if I had to take a charitable guess?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:When I'm god-emperor, anyone who uses the phrase "some are more equal than other" or "its a brave new world, innit?" would have to write at least two sides of A4 explaining what they understand those words to mean, and how they are applicable to the current situation. They're the worst kind of thought-terminating cliche. They're not evenly overly-reductive like most cliches, they just say "thing bad" and stop the conversation. At the very least it should be required that everyone that quotes those books should've read it first.
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Jul 14, 2020 12:28
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Mr Interweb posted:https://twitter.com/aliceandrow/status/1282809991351734275 People thinking animal farm is pro capitalism rather than a very thinly veiled criticism of stalinism is funny
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Jul 14, 2020 12:35
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Noted disliker of socialism, George Orwell.
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brugroffil posted:People thinking animal farm is pro capitalism rather than a very thinly veiled criticism of stalinism is funny Well criticizing Stalinism is the same as criticizing socialism, and if you think socialism bad then you must think capitalism good.
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Jul 14, 2020 13:00
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A conservative I knew said that closing gitmo was like 1984 back when Obama said he intended to close it. When I pressed them on whether or not they actually read the book they said no. So I’m willing to bet most haven’t even read orwell.
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Jul 14, 2020 13:03
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Hihohe posted:someone saved it you know a liberal's foreign policy take is good when wasbappin shows up to defend it
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Jul 14, 2020 13:06
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Scary! Too posted:A conservative I knew said that closing gitmo was like 1984 back when Obama said he intended to close it. When I pressed them on whether or not they actually read the book they said no. So I’m willing to bet most haven’t even read orwell. There was a study once which concluded that 1984 is the book people most frequently lie about having read.
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1984 is the book about how secret prisons and an overinflated military is good, right?
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Bernard Marx was a simp.
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Her Dryer posted:I read that Animal Farm thread, which is infuriating of course, and he said something I see a lot from these types of guys, "I'm not saying capitalism shouldn't have some elements of socialism in there, but..." People just think that socialism is when the government does things, which if you define it expansively enough means you can call Milton Freidman a socialist
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*Sees a falafel stand on the street corner* “This is just like 1984.....”
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Scary! Too posted:*Sees a falafel stand on the street corner* the only thing that turns me off more than 1984 comparisons from people who either haven't read or barely remember the book is when somebody insists that Idiocracy was actually extremely insightful and woke, because Donald Trump is stupid
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:There was a study once which concluded that 1984 is the book people most frequently lie about having read. My favourite part of 1984 is when Winston realises he can't ride the trains anymore on account of being too big.
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Jul 14, 2020 14:37
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:drat bro that sounds like something straight out of 1984 its a real catch 22 is what it is
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Jul 14, 2020 14:38
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If you want people to read books in 2020 you have it in a fake jacket that's like "Harry Potter and the War Against Himself" or something
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duz posted:its a real catch 22 is what it is smh idiocracy was right
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Jim Long-un posted:the only thing that turns me off more than 1984 comparisons from people who either haven't read or barely remember the book is when somebody insists that Idiocracy was actually extremely insightful and woke, because Donald Trump is stupid i don't think you can call it woke but the POTUS in Idiocracy is literally a better POTUS than Donny.
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Jim Long-un posted:the only thing that turns me off more than 1984 comparisons from people who either haven't read or barely remember the book is when somebody insists that Idiocracy was actually extremely insightful and woke, because Donald Trump is stupid drat yeah people are dumb It's almost like Idiocracy Was A Documentary...
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Bust Rodd posted:i don't think you can call it woke but the POTUS in Idiocracy is literally a better POTUS than Donny. ur fucken dead kid
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Bust Rodd posted:i don't think you can call it woke but the POTUS in Idiocracy is literally a better POTUS than Donny. Has there ever been a worse POTUS in fiction? TRUMP is uniquely bad in such a way that if in the early 2010s you wrote a president who did what he did, people would think your writing was exaggerated to the point of being unrealistic and dumb.
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univbee posted:Has there ever been a worse POTUS in fiction? TRUMP is uniquely bad in such a way that if in the early 2010s you wrote a president who did what he did, people would think your writing was exaggerated to the point of being unrealistic and dumb. The President in She Cried Veto: The Susan Miller Story
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Jim Long-un posted:ur fucken dead kid -US is in Crisis -POTUS finds smartest man in the world -gives him the resources and authority to figure out the problem and fix it like that alone is... I mean OWCH MY BAWLS
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univbee posted:Has there ever been a worse POTUS in fiction? TRUMP is uniquely bad in such a way that if in the early 2010s you wrote a president who did what he did, people would think your writing was exaggerated to the point of being unrealistic and dumb. Literally his only saving grace is the fact that he's too dumb and cowardly to actually get anything done. his literal white supremacist staff aside
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univbee posted:Has there ever been a worse POTUS in fiction? TRUMP is uniquely bad in such a way that if in the early 2010s you wrote a president who did what he did, people would think your writing was exaggerated to the point of being unrealistic and dumb. Disregarding alien/nazi collaborators from sci-fi, I'd say Billy Bob Thornton in Love Actually or Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon come close but you'd still be thrown out of any writers room for pitching president asking "how do we sell puerto rico"
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Bobby Digital posted:https://twitter.com/kristina_basham/status/1282443986557267969?s=21
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I want to be able to say I had sex in the dilbert house
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I'm sure dilbertman has a little notebook he writes 'I'm great at sex.' In a million times a day, so he believes he's a great lover.
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Scary! Too posted:I want to be able to say I had sex in the dilbert house so does he
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The tie on the dilbert house is flat today which means Scott Adams hosed
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*constantly adjusts necktie* "I swear this never happens. Please universe let me have this TODAY
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