Fun fact 1984 was literally just the USSR1984 is categorically not the USSR. Orwell wrote a different book on the USSR.
1984 is categorically not the USSR. Orwell wrote a different book on the USSR.It's literally about Stalinism. That said it's not really meant to be a communist vs fascist argument but a warning about totalitarianism.
It's literally about Stalinism. That said it's not really meant to be a communist vs fascist argument but a warning about totalitarianism.Again, Animal Farm is the book that is explicitly about Stalinism. Let's take a look at what Orwell said about 1984:
Orwell said that his book was a satire - a warning certainly, but in the form of satire. When Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, he read the American reviews in his last bed. Many of them took the work literally, as if "Ingsoc" represented Attlee's socialism as well as Stalin's, and thought that the writer had deserted socialism. He replied to an American trade unionist, worried at the tone of the initial American reviews, with a press release: "I do not believe that the kind of society I describe will necessarily arrive, but I believe (allowing, of course, for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive." In the same letter he calls it "a show" of the "perversions to which a centralised economy is liable and which have already been partly realisable in communism and fascism".If it was about Stalinism, he would have said it was about Stalinism.
i need to get out of this shithole countryNot without your mandatory government approved check you won't!
You guys already shot yourself in one foot because of xenophobia, now you seem eager to blast the other one for the same reason.UK is like "No one can come here! We can go to other places though. That's fine."
You guys already shot yourself in one foot because of xenophobia, now you seem eager to blast the other one for the same reason.No no you don't get it
Brits might be even more obsessed with immigration per capita than Americans, and that's saying something.
Kinda wild considering they are a fucking Island Nation.Look.
They don't have a land border with a fuckshitload of other countries like most of the rest the planet nor do you got some stupid ass big several thousand miles landborder like the US or a few others do.
Look.UK doesn't like the consequences of its colonialism. They can send their populace for past 'immigration' wreck your country/land after taking its resources then say it's your problem to fix don't come here.
Just because we take less immigrants than others AND refuse to offer than a safe and legal way to get here isn't our problem.
We truly suffer more than any other. /s
Did they have covid vaccine mandates in the UK?No. It wasn't really needed.
i need to get out of this shithole country
Then V For Vendetta will be realRemember, remember. The date is coming up! Who knows, you might be correct!! Although that would create so many more problems and extremism.....fun times ahead!
You say that as if red states in the US aren't also trying to do this stuffI don't know a single conservative (and I know a lot) that wants digital IDs, too close to the mark of the beast.
Relevant, TIL the myth that vaccines cause autism was started by a British doctor (who has since retracted it but the damage has been done.)I dont believe Wakefield ever retracted his statement even after losing his license as had grifted in America for awhile.
https://thenib.com/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0/
The journal Wakefield published it in retracted it. He's now part of the "I'm being repressed for my controversial ideas" grifter club.And he was never anti vax in the first place.
Not that im defending this but doesnt every single EU country have a national ID card? Is this really that big a dealYes, most do. Which in a way explains why the British always rejected it. It was something that petty Brussels bureaucrats wanted, and the noble, free Englishman didn't need (so nationalism and xenophobia, as per usual).
I will never understand how billionaires vote for the party that takes away their cheap undocumented laborers. I thought they lived for thisThey dont' want to get rid of them, they want them to live is fear. The more afraid they are, the more likely it is they will accept how the companies treat them without raising a stink.
They dont' want to get rid of them, they want them to live is fear. The more afraid they are, the more likely it is they will accept how the companies treat them without raising a stink.