• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    I was at a wedding this weekend and someone was going off about communism and I was like “man just fry reading a book about it.”

    Buddy was like “I have!”

    “Oh yeah? What book?”

    “1984!”

    Oh so a fiction book, okay buddy. Good talk.

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      3 years ago

      Fiction written by a useful idiot for Britain, no less. Distasteful.

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          3 years ago

          Not reading 1984 would honestly make him smarter

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            3 years ago

            Yeah idk. I just couldn’t imagine being so stupid that you think that would be worth saying to someone. It’s just embarrassing.

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              3 years ago

              They forced us to read Animal Farm in school, but not 1984 oddly enough. George Orwell isn’t even an entertaining writer alongside being a propagandist for empire. And an attempted rapist. And a plaigiarist. And a racist. And a homophobe. And worst of all he was English.

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                3 years ago

                We had to read “The Giver” when I was in school. Similar premise. Never realized that it was all anti communist propaganda until I was older.