I’d read that!

Big if true

USA number one!

The dilapidated and incompetent White House military still uses pre-internet era floppy disks to run crucial nuclear missile control systems, does not take launch site security seriously, and has lost nuclear warheads or transported live warheads unknowingly on multiple occasions.

It’s like the Eastern European 90s kids waxing poetic about their “lived experience of the horrors of communism.” It’s just an aesthetic.

/s

Important observations in what way? What credibility does being the author of a poorly written and shoddily thought out book bring with it? In fact I would argue the best way to read 1984 is as the terrified inner voice which says, “this is what our authoritarian British colonial society turned inwards could look like.”

I would suggest reading the Red Sails article On Orwell linked in another reply to my comment.

It must also be said that Orwell could not forgive the Soviets for defeating Hitler and the Nazis, nor could he move on from red-bashing and anti-semitism even after the Holocaust.

Of course.

It’s just how people were back then. You have to evaluate people as a product of their times. Just because he was a rapist, plagiarist, cop, anti-semitic, homophobic, and liked Hitler doesn’t mean he was wrong about evil totalitarian stalinism! /s

Also true.

Didn’t Orwell say he couldn’t bring himself to dislike Hitler?

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

IIRC his wife admitted at some point that Gulag Archipelago was a work of fiction.

I’m only superficially familiar with Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism, but it speaks to the same idea. As the tagline on his book says, is there no alternative?

I feel this. It’s also something I try to talk about with others, but I always have the feeling that it falls on deaf ears. At best I get general uncomittal agreement and some liberal platitudes about how this is just the way things are in return.

Can’t have wars between nations if you don’t teach people that other nations exist or aren’t truly sovereign.

Random word generator.

The “conspiracy theory” that she’s actually a spook is quite fun.

I’ve experienced plenty of extremely rude MFAs (Medizinische Fachangestellte, I don’t know what an Anglo equivalent would be) in Germany as well. I think the issue stems from how overworked they are and how many patients they deal with every day. The lack of investment in public health here is mindblowing. Some still manage to put on a polite mask, but many are extremely direct and even rude.

Funny, I just skimmed over a discussion about why reddit is so left-leaning (idk according to who, but probably a fascist).

It’s also great when public transportation service goes until 01:00 at the absolute latest, but alcohol service goes until 02:00. And then a taxi costs something like $100/hour and it’s not like a person lives in the area of where they’ve gone out for the night, so the ride home is long and expensive.